Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chastened no doubt by last year's fiasco--co-operated by sending in their bid lists promptly. "100%" was achieved, but not without anxious moments for the officials in charge and not without heartache and ruptured friendships for the sophomores. Success by Bicker's standards, in short, does not make Bicker a wholly desirable thing, and most Princetonians, from Interclub Committee Chairman David J. Callard on down, will readily admit...
...intention of decentralizing its academic or disciplinary administration down to a Quad level. Faculty members will live in the Quad and eat in the dining room, but they will not have any formal responsibilities. But Goheen and Lippincott hope that this informal student-faculty contact will make for a "closer interpenetration of academic and non-academic life...
Behind this report, of course, is the idea that responsible Americans of the future will have to make important decisions involved with the complexity of modern life, and since science plays such a decisive role in this complex, it follows that educated men should know something about science. Unfortunately, however, there is a major difference between science and a field such as Comparative Literature--a difference of language. Whereas any intelligent person who has a certain facility with words can understand the weighty sentences of the expert in Comp. Lit., the same is not true in general of science. Indeed...
...real problem lies well beyond this. The question of whether or not the generally educated Conantman could ever make any very profound judgement on the merits of this or that scientific program on purely scientific grounds, must at present be answered negatively. It seems likely that there will be a continuing need for the Killian-type scientific advisor at all levels, and such suggestions as the Committee's, urging the use of calculus in Nat. Sci., do not and cannot go very far towards alleviating this situation...
...however, will be little more than a practice session for the Crimson, which will play Navy and Princeton tomorrow and Saturday. These contests will probably decide the Eastern Inter collegiate Championship, for Yale has lost to the Middies, 5 to 4, and a Crimson win at Annapolis would definitely make the varsity a favorite to take the crown...