Word: hynek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should also attract a host of auditors on opening day, even from among those who have long transcended the elementary stuff. Clambering up the Gropius-bleachers in Burr A gives one a chance to view both Sputnik-spotting Dr. Hynek, and cigarette-dangling Payne-Gaposchkin, Harvard's first woman professor, world authority on variable stars, and beloved eccentric of the first order...
...Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Observatory, backed his co-lecturer of Natural Sciences 9, claiming that students' "lack of adequate training in mathematics was appalling" and that many "blush at the sight of a logarithm...
...Hynek feels that the goal of the Natural Sciences program is to take potential legislators, doctors and writers and "place them in society with a solid knowledge of what science is all about. Science," he said, "is a force that has shaped our existence, and it is ludicrous for universities to turn out students who don't know what this force...
...Both Hynek and Mrs. Gaposchkin would require students, who are intellectually capable, to complete three years of algebra, as well as trigonometry and geometry. Furthermore, they would require a year of physics, which Hynek labelled as "basic to the understanding of all the sciences...
...Hynek was amplifying his suggestion of last week that children be told "scientific fairy tales" to stimulate their interest in technical subjects. "There are many stories of science that can be warmly and entrancingly told, and can become part of childhood's heritage," he said...