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...story does not amuse Harvard scientists; almost half Freshmen interested in science do indeed switch to other fields. The forced humor masks the tension that the conflict between science and the University has aroused in the Faculty. It is this latent hostility that drove a chemist to violent personal attacks on the admissions office voked a historian to reply that the difference between "two cultures" is that one believes in Harvard College and the other destruction...
Virus particles have been found in some human cancers, but this does not prove that they caused the disease. Some tumor viruses invade an animal, yet they disappear for months or years, and then belatedly cause cancer. The hows and whys of this latent period are unknown. One partial explanation may lie in the ability of new "provirus" particles to remain undetected in cells, doing no evident damage until they are stimulated by chemicals or X rays. The important thing is that these nucleic-acid molecules can be infective by themselves, with no assist from the protein that normally accompanies...
...urban working class oppressed by the other two groups. The trouble is that such a "Marxian" analysis neatly coincides with the racial division. And this is the only real threat to a temporarily stable situation--that the Congress, or some other faction, might rouse the latent hostility a large proportion of the African population bears toward the other races, and turn out a government which has created a remarkable spirit of cooperation among the three races
Just as the bullfight affords ordered release for the latent ferocity of Spain, bicycle racing brings Gallic veto worship to near ecstasy each spring and summer. It reaches its peak with the Tour de France...
Perhaps students needed a new issue in the spring, perhaps they had latent animosities to release; perhaps they were more "conservative" or "traditional" than they like to think. In any case, the furor over the language and format of diplomas shook the College for several weeks. During Commencement Week ten days ago, the diploma issue was mentioned everywhere--from the Ivy Oration to the President's talk to seniors--even by administrators who a month earlier had desperately hoped that the whole matter would be suppressed...