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...Faust’s acceptance speech, she quoted laboratory founder Professor John Trowbridge, who said in 1877, “The department of physics in a university must embrace both teaching and investigation. If it is given up entirely to teaching, the cause of science suffers, and the object of a University which is founded both to teach and increase the sum of human knowledge is defeated...
According to a letter Glendon wrote to Notre Dame University President John I. Jenkins, the university had issued “talking points” suggesting that her presence at the commencement would “balance” Obama’s pro-choice views...
...Laetare Medal, which recognizes a Catholic whose “genius has ennobled the arts and sciences,” has been awarded annually since 1883. Notable recipients include former President John F. Kennedy ’40 and former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...that assured him there was no place like Harvard for a liberal education, has been badly shortchanged. While he will have spent $3,000 on books for his classes, he will not have bought a single work of William Shakespeare or Henry James. He will be wholly unfamiliar with John Stuart Mill or Bertrand Russell. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus might as well be Plato or Aristotle—that is to say, Greek. This newspaper reported last Thursday that Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay Harris informed an ad hoc committee deliberating the addition of a Great Books element...
...There were a lot of good regattas taking place this weekend,” sophomore skipper John Stokes said. “The talent was spread around throughout our conference, and we dealt with the conditions well...