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...these distinctions make the central concept all the stronger. Columbia's Physicist Isidor I. Rabi defines academic freedom as "the right to knowledge and the free use thereof." It is every professor's responsibility "to discover, speak and teach the truth, however difficult and unpopular this may be to others," says the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina. "One cannot search for the truth with a closed mind or without the right to question and doubt at every step," says University of Chicago President George Beadle, who in his time has found...
Once they have a clue to the cause of a disease, medical researchers often make steady progress in the search for a cure. But not in the case of lung cancer. Doctors have long been convinced that cigarette smoking is a major cause, Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin reminded a California seminar for science writers, but in the past decade the number of fatal cases of lung cancer has increased alarmingly. Death rates have shot up 73% in men and 18% in women. The death rates from other kinds of cancer have also increased-cancer of the kidney, 19% in males...
...York's Finger Lakes-daringly coed (since 1872) Cornell soon climbed to first-class status. Down the hill marched illustrious alumni, from F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to Lawyer Arthur Dean, who now chairs the trustees. Other notables: Critic George Jean Nathan, Physicist Isidor Rabi, Authors Pearl Buck and E. B. White...
...bestowed on Newhouse the title of "journalistic chiffonnier"?a French word that means "ragpicker." While Newhouse was angling for Portland's evening daily, the Oregon Journal (he hooked it last year), David Eyre, then the Journal's managing editor, pointedly referred to him in print as Samuel ISIDOR New-house." (Newhouse is indeed of Jewish descent, but his middle initial stands for nothing at all.) Last week, inspired in part by Newhouse's acquisition of New Orleans and in part by an ambition to make headlines, Democratic U.S. Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn announced that the House Judiciary Committee...
Does the nature of their research exempt scientists from the compulsion to stand by? Men like Hans Bethe, Ralph Lapp, Isidor Rabi and others...