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...Allen Hynek, visiting lecturer on General Education and head of Nat Sci 9, supported the report while responding to Jones' criticism of too many lower level teachers. Hynek fully agreed that the emphasis upon secondary preparation ought to be increased. However, he maintained that "not even as great a university as Harvard should forget that one of the prime obligations of a university is to teach...
...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has not been tracking the rocket, since it is "much too faint to be seen with the telescope," according to J. Allen Hynek, associate director of the Observatory. However, Hynek added that the rocket "will definitely orbit at a calculable distance...
...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...
...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...