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Filling the post left vacant since June by the return of Professor Deknatel to full-time teaching, John W. Hallowell '31 will serve as assistant to the Dean in charge of Freshmen, Dean Hanford announced last week...
...Indebted to Dean Hanford for reviving this old story to emphasize that the General Education Report must be discussed from the point of view of the student. So far this term, most Harvard students have been pretty apathetic about the General Education proposals, and consequently a lot of people are running around with their heads full of misconceptions about the whole thing...
...Dean Hanford and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have had to rely on some reports prepared by committees of the Student Council in years past to discover what students think about education. The Undergraduate Organizational Committee on the General Education Report has stormed against "the apparent disregard of student opinion" shown by the Dean's office and the Faculty in its consideration of the General Education proposals--but the whole thing has been something of a tempest in a teapot...
...products of the atomic bomb, the Army's civilian scientists piled up a wealth of new methods and materials useful to peace. Among the most promising: the radioactive elements from the uranium-plutonium piles at Hanford, Washington. But when U.S. industry asked the Army for more information, it got a brisk, firm "No!" One rejected applicant was W. G. Green, president of Well Surveys Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He wanted to consult "some technically qualified person" about using radioactive synthetics in the oil-well testing business. He got the brush...
...neutron source used at present is a radium-beryllium mixture. But radium is dangerous and gives off confusing gamma-rays of its own. Oilman Green, hoping to try some radioactive substance from Hanford, had reckoned without the brass hats...