Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Barnard said there was "very strong feeling" against the competition. Members of Moors Hall decided "quite unanimously" not to enter the contest, according to a dormitory member, who added that the girls voted on the matter at dinner and "no one was interested in such an un-Radcliffe idea...
There are two main purposes behind the venture, Revie said. The first is to "give our commercial pilots more to do;" the second, to "improve the name of the Harvard Flying Club, to remove the idea that we're nothing but a playboy organization...
...very beginning of its report the Committee gives the following motivation for its investigations: "The increasingly important role that science plays in shaping the lives of men makes it urgent that graduates of Harvard College should have some idea of the discipline which is ultimately responsible for this influence...
...addition, the Committee presents a specific program for imparting this "idea" to the knowledge-hungry young scholar. Courses should be instituted which offer a "knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science and give the student an idea of the methods of science as they are known today." Such courses would unquestionably be very beneficial for a student with some touch of scientific curiosity, but it is a bit difficult to see just why they would give this idea of scientific discipline (as a molding force in modern life) any better than Nat. Sci. 10 does...
Behind this report, of course, is the idea that responsible Americans of the future will have to make important decisions involved with the complexity of modern life, and since science plays such a decisive role in this complex, it follows that educated men should know something about science. Unfortunately, however, there is a major difference between science and a field such as Comparative Literature--a difference of language. Whereas any intelligent person who has a certain facility with words can understand the weighty sentences of the expert in Comp. Lit., the same is not true in general of science. Indeed...