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...December seems too austere to support life. But only one or two other U.S. centers of science have been as fruitful during the past decade as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Last week M.I.T. named as its new president a man who. with outgoing President James R. Killian Jr., deserves a large measure of the credit: Chancellor Julius Adams Stratton...
...when Stratton took his degree in electrical engineering at M.I.T.. the Cambridge school has almost wholly altered its character. That year M.I.T. spent something more than $2,000,000 at its specialty: turning out high-quality engineers. Last year, under Acting President Stratton-who took over when President Killian was named Special Assistant for Science and Technology to President Eisenhower-M.I.T. spent almost $21 million for operating costs, another $54 million on sponsored research projects. But more important than a ballooned budget are M.I.T.'s expanded objectives. The institute still trains some of the nation...
M.I.T.'s surge toward scientific eminence was begun by President (1930-48) Karl Compton. Under Killian and Right-Hand Man Stratton a new reform was pushed through: raising the departments of humanities and social sciences to the status of the institute's other professional schools. At 57, Physicist "J" Stratton is well qualified to understand the importance of the humanities; after he graduated from M.I.T., he made the grand tour, spent much of his time studying French literature at the Universities of Grenoble and Toulouse. He earned his doctorate in mathematical physics at Zurich, returned to M.I.T...
...Energy Commission and the Pentagon, convinced that prolonged test suspension would play fast and loose with U.S. military posture, argued for resuming low-fallout tests. And last week the advocates of full test suspension, centered in President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee under M.I.T.'s James Rhyne Killian, loosed a bitter counterattack...
...scientist hammered hardest at ex-AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss (now Secretary of Commerce) and ex-AEC Consultant Edward Teller. Strauss and Teller, said the Science Advisory Committee spokesman, are "radicals . . . extremists of one viewpoint." He stressed the point that the Science Advisory Committee's now dominant voices, e.g., Killian, Columbia University's Dr. I. I. Rabi, base their stop-the-tests stand on purely technical, nonpolitical grounds. But he went on to say that Science Advisory Committee members feel that test stoppage, all science aside, will bring the "reduction of tensions," and "hope of a world that does...