Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Fallouts has decided that the human body can stand twice as much Strontium 90 as they previously thought possible, it is nice to know that someone is still thinking about ending nuclear bomb tests. President Eisenhower's note to Khrushchev this week asking for a stoppage of tests in the atmophere thirty miles above the earth--permitting underground tests until a satisfactory inspection system can be set up--suggests that the Administration is more than casually interested in the success of talks on this subject...
...termed "the ideal secondary school preparation for Harvard," as has been suggested by some, would only discourage applicants from secondary schools where these subjects are not taught. Until engineering schools lose their appeal as vocational preparation, Harvard will not be able to compete for high school students who "know what they want to do" and have no interest in the liberal arts...
...university's primary concern is not for the results of engineering, nor for science as an instrument of technology," according to Pussy, "but rather, essentially, for science as an intellectual pursuit whose compelling motive is simply the desire to know...
...universities, Pusey said, are the proper places for pure research, for in them the scientist is free to follow, without the pressure of deadlines, the scholars' "desire to know." From such a viewpoint, the oft-voiced opinion that science is incompatible with the humanistic tradition of Harvard would be greatly undermined...
Though a Harvard man for two years, he feels that, "it's a little like old home week when I come back here to sing. I wonder why that should be? Is it because we're from similar backgrounds? You know, Harvard has a national reputation for being cold and standoffish, but its audiences aren't like that...