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...course will use an approach similar to that Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, employed in his text, Introduction to the Concepts of Physical Science. Holton is co-director of "Project Physics...
...group hopes," Holton said, "to create a physics course that will be appropriate and appealing to a wide spectrum of students.... We hope to interest every type of student, even those initially hostile to science, by showing them that physics is neither an isolated and bloodless body of facts and theories, nor a glorious entertainment, restricted to an elite of specialists...
...Science is of course not everything," Holton said, "but the low number of students who now take physics is particularly worrisome in those cases where the student cannot expect a later college education to make up for deficiencies in science. Even the humblest job in our more and more technical society will require some sound knowledge in the physical sciences and the elements of scientific thought...
...Bunting, president of Radcliffe; John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House and chairman of the Committee on General Education; Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House; Leo Goldberg '34, Higgins Professor of Astronomy; Dean Monro; and David D. Perkins '51, associate professor of English. Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, sat with the committee until his leave of absence began this Fall...
Last year's fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh players, Bob Holton, Doug Eaton, Dennis Wollan, and Warren Nixon, all graduated, but some of the losses should be made up for by the addition of John Hawkins, a 130-pound sophomore who went undefeated as the top players on last year's freshman team. Hawkins put together a 4-0 record in freshman competition...