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Working with Dr. Peter Dubach, Douglas Pratt and C. M. Stewart, Professor Smith was studying the hibernating larvae of woodboring beetles (Melandrya striata), trying to isolate the enzymes that digest the cellulose on which the insects live. But when he ground up the larvae and analyzed the juice, he was...
Besides potential reformers and repeaters, the system of predictive devices will, according to the Gluecks, point out children who are likely to get into trouble with the police, criminals who are likely to make trouble in prison, criminals who are most likely to commit new crimes if released, and delinquents...
Moreover, the influences of the University are hard to isolate. Four-fifths of the Catholics who reacted against their religious tradition dated their original reaction back to secondary school or earlier. And only about half of the more or less "questionable" Catholics noted particular aspects of the College as factors...
There is a place for the Catholic at Harvard if he can prove himself intellectually and prove that his Catholicism is an examined faith. He has to break the shell. It's easy to isolate oneself, but in isolation one can learn nothing about others or about oneself. Catholics are...
Each undergraduate here has probably formulated some rough notions about the influences of the College; in general, one would expect the atmosphere of the University to exert a "liberalizing" or more questioning attitude toward the legacy of opinion that the student possesses when he arrives in Cambridge. But we have...