Word: herbert
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...symposium, funded by a $10,000 gift from Herbert Askwith '07, is intended to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of new concepts in higher education...
...WILSON has been on the defensive lately. Just the other da when I called him to ask about his "Sociobiology: The New Synthesis" he didn't seem to want to talk--until I mentioned that I meant to draw some similarities between his work and Herbert Spencer's turn-of-the-century synthesis of sociology and biology. He told me to come over as soon as I could. And by the time I had arrived at his fourth floor office in the new wing of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, he had already "jotted down a few notes" to counter...
...start I told him that the book seems to me to be a sophisticated update of Herbert Spencer's antiquated Synthetic Philosophy, published in six volumes between 1862 and 1893. Both Spencer and Wilson combine the study of social structures and existing evolutionary theory on their syntheses. Spencer and Wilson support a biological explanation of individualistic natural selection for some elements of human behavior. Spencer contends in his writings that intelligence, aggression, revenge, justice, generosity, humanity, veracity, obedience, industry, temperance, altruism and a host of other characteristics can be inherited. Wilson has in his own synthesis identified certain peculiar characteristics...
...minutes later. Dorsey and E.D. Brockett were allowed to complete their terms as directors but will have to give up their seats in April. The resignations of William L. Henry, president of the Gulf Oil Real Estate Development Co., and Fred Deering, senior vice president, also were accepted. Herbert C. Manning, vice president and secretary, lost his job as a Gulf officer, but will be assigned to new duties. New corporate rules and procedures were put into effect to highlight all political contributions-and to define accountability for them...
From Deutsche Grammophon conies Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. I in B-flat minor, recorded last November with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic, which is both surprising and gratifying for its underplaying of the work's slam-bang heroics...