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...students for his gestures: "the punt" (cupped hands suggesting firmness) and "peeling the cabbage" (when he appears to chop ideas from his head). He has strengthened an already good faculty by adding such scholars as Old Testament Expert James Barr of the University of Edinburgh and Pastoral Psychologist Seward Hiltner of the University of Chicago, brought in language machines to speed student learning of Hebrew and Greek. Most of the seminary's 445 students are still Presbyterians. McCord is delighted that the majority plan to enter the pastoral ministry rather than seek a career in scholarship. Says...
...Although Hiltner has yet to put his gadget on a telescope, he and his Yerkes colleagues are sure that it means a revolution in stargazing. At present, astronomers using the world's biggest (200 in., $6.5 million) telescope at Mt. Palomar, Calif, can record, i.e., photograph, galaxies 1 to 2 billion light-years away. With Hiltner's gadget boosting the light intake many times, astronomers may find aging galaxies even farther out and in richer detail than ever before, at a fraction ($180) of the huge costs involved in building bigger telescopes...
Stargazers, as they wait for newer, bigger telescopes to be built, long for a short cut to a better look through the light years at unexplored outer space. Last week University of Chicago Astronomer William A. Hiltner completed laboratory tests on a new "image-converter" that may increase telescopic visibility a hundredfold...
Astronomer Hiltner found a physicist's solution to the problem. At the university's Yerkes Observatory, he installed an aluminum shield, only four-millionths of an inch thick, between the photocathode and the photographic plate. The fast electrons passed right through the shield like light through a window; the foil prevented the water molecules from destroying the vulnerable cesium, hence the light booster could operate indefinitely...
...psychiatrists together (see MEDICINE). Published last week was a memorial to his efforts, titled Psychiatry and Religion (Beacon Press; $3)-15 addresses given last year at Boston's Temple Israel Institute on Religion and Psychiatry. One of the contributors best informed in both fields is Presbyterian Rev. Seward Hiltner, executive secretary of the department of pastoral services of the Federal Council of Churches. Said...