Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighth grade students learn enough chemistry to determine simple compounds of some twenty-odd elements, enough astronomy to calculate roughly the winter solstice with hand-made tools or to ask why the orbit of the moon is not a true ellipse, and enough geometry and trigonometry to construct very accurate maps on conic and other projections...
From maps of the sky, with sky coordinates, the students proceed as the ancients did to mapping the earth, and they learn how a spherical surface is translated onto a flat piece of oak tag. Large wall maps are one tangible result of this project, maps accurate to a degree that would please even Frederick Merk...
...disagree with my own view that the greatest service of all performed by the CRIMSON is in its gathering of news. As the sole daily newspaper at Harvard, it is the principal, and almost the only medium which makes it possible for one segment of this society to learn what other segments are doing and to make known currently its own activities in important preliminary stages before those activities have reached the stage for more general publication in books or the public press. In fact, I have reason to believe that Faculty members, like many others in this complex society...
Yovicsin, himself a very attractive figure as a football coach, is still learning about this very complex University. As a coach, he would obviously like to have football players here, but he cannot want them as much as the alumni do, or he will conflict with Ivy standards. His job is football, and since this is the activity in the University that gets the most frequent public attention, he never has a chance to learn the job quietly and privately. His every move is in public. Yet, popular with his players and with undergraduates generally, Yovicsin seems to be adjusting...
...weightlessness, the gravity-free state that will envelop man when he orbits around the earth or reaches for the moon and planets. Reason: in the earth's atmosphere and gravity belt, this unearthly state can be created only for a fraction of a minute at a time. To learn at firsthand how it is done and what it feels like, TIME's Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant went weightless in one of the Air Force's fast jet fighters. His account...