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Eugene Booth, professor of Physics at Columbia University, represented the Atomic Energy Commission with a few brief remarks to close the ceremony. James R. Killian, Jr., president of M.I.T., who was scheduled to speak and assist President Pusey in the ground-breaking, was unable to attend...
...Past. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the M.I.T. program is the most ambitious ever undertaken to modernize high-school physical science courses. Its steering committee includes such names as Nobel Prizewinners Edward Purcell and I. I. (for Isidor Isaac) Rabi, M.I.T.'s President James Killian, Atomic Scientist Vannevar Bush and Moviemaker Frank Capra; its working staff already numbers more than 100. Under Director Jerrold Zacharias, head of M.I.T.'s nuclear science laboratory, the staff will work at least five years on the project, after that may turn its attention to high-school chemistry...
...United States and in Latin America and Canada. Also in the magazine is a group of special articles, ranging from an analysis of the college graduate's earning power by Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, to a plea for more technological personnel by M.I.T. President James R. Killian...
Newly elected trustees on the high-level board are Chancellor Harvie Brans-comb of Vanderbilt University and President James R. Killian, Jr. of M.I.T. They will fill vacancies created by the retirement from university presidencies of Oliver C. Carmichael of the University of Alabama and Harold W. Dodds of Princeton...
Another half million dollars is required annually to increase scholarships and other types of student aid, and another half million to support basic research, Killian added...