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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the accelerator is a unique machine, says M. Stanley Livingston, professor of physics at MIT and director of the project, the design of both the tunnel and the measuring apparatus requires a good deal of original work. To this end, physicists and engineers from MIT and Harvard have been busy for the past two years. Livingston expects construction to be finished early in 1960, and, after the machine is "turned up" and tested, operation should begin later that year...
Harvard's facilities for nuclear research date back quite a while. Before the Second World War, the University owned a small, constant frequency cyclotron ("the only kind available at that time," says William M. Preston, director of the current cyclotron laboratory). During wartime, however, this machine was appropriated by the government and taken out to Los Alamos for use in the experiments that led to the atomic bomb...
...space on the shelves. Sorokin picks up a new work by Ortega y Gasset, which he has been asked to review, and he suggests that perhaps the Spanish social thinker may have "borrowed" some of his ideas, though y Gasset doesn't acknowledge any influence. "I'm very widely read in Spain," he notes, a quizzical smile accompanying the revelation. This suggestion that many sociologists have swiped his ideas is one of his favorite themes. But he takes an obvious pride in the esteem reflected in such judicious intellectual thievery. Sorokin notes with pride that he was made the most...
...group of undergraduates are adapting original Russian folk songs to accompany the book which was written by J. Jeremy Johnston '61. Charles M. Castleman '61 and John Austen '61 are organizing an orchestra which will be directed by Andrew Schaence '62. John B. Prizer '61 and Marcel Ugels '61 are producing Drumbeats, with Mark J. Mirsky acting as director...
...members, whose names were first announced at Commencement, are Francis Boyer '16 of Philadelphia, James M. Faulkner '20 of Boston, Alexander M. White '25 of New York City, William G. Saltonstall '28 of Exeter, N.H., and Edwin A. Locke, Jr. '32 of Chicago...