Word: mcgill
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Last week Hewish's receipt of that award became embroiled in a bitter controversy. At a press conference at Montreal's McGill University, Britain's Sir Fred Hoyle, a noted astronomer, theoretician, science fiction writer (The Black Cloud) and scientific gadfly, had charged that Hewish "pinched" the prize for himself by failing to give Jocelyn Bell proper credit. Asked by a reporter if he considered it a scientific injustice to leave Bell out of the award, Hoyle replied: "Yes, I think it was a scientific scandal of major proportions...
Last fall, the Columbia University Senate set up a committee to study the ROTC issue, after President William J. McGill issued a statement saying that the Department of Defense had a policy of refusing financial aid to military and defense department personnel who wanted to study at Columbia because of the university's attitude towards ROTC...
...Washington M.A. in physics and a Stanford master's in business administration that he plans to apply to a career in corporate banking or business marketing. In hockey, a game not noted for the intellect of its players, Montreal Canadien Goalie Ken Dryden holds a law degree from McGill. Last year Dryden abandoned hockey and his $75,000 annual salary to work in a Toronto law office. This season he is back in the nets...
...dedication Saturday, Columbia president William J. McGill called the new gym "a symbol of the university's commitment to the city," and said Mor- ningside residents would be able to use it once Columbia's physical education program requirements had been...
...symbolizes what it symbolizes," Andrew W. Cordier, McGill's predecessor, who took office shortly after the 1968 strike and presided over the decision to move the gym, said yesterday. "I'm delighted that it's finished and that...