Word: holton
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...nation is spinning towards scientific and technological illiteracy," Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and professor of the History of Science, said Wednesday in the tenth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities...
Americans today are "caught between the forward thrust of technology and the backward thrust of education." Holton said, adding that students with inadequate scientific education will be "slaves with respect to key issues of self-government...
...Jefferson Lecture is described by its sponsor, the National Endowment for the Humanities, as the "highest honor that the United States pays to an eminent humanist." Holton, the first scientist to be so honored, gave the hour-long lecture Monday in Washington, D.C. and repeated it Wednesday before an invited audience of about 250 at the Boston Public Library...
...tailspin is not incorrectible." Holton concluded, but he added. "the scale and variety of our efforts must be enlarged...
...sooner had Brown arrived last March than he jumped into the annual recruiting scramble. Although he started late, he managed to lure a pair of speedy backcourt men to put zip into the attack: Guards Rod Foster and Mike Holton. The two settled into the lineup slightly after midseason and played more like seniors than freshmen. The team began to jell. Brown scrapped the slick-passing offense he had favored at Denver and returned to Wooden's more traditional style. Sophomore Mike Sanders, a comparatively small 6 ft. 6 in., was switched from forward to center...