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...Donald McKay's Boston yard launches ships such as The Flying Cloud and The Champion of the Seas, the fastest clipper ever built...
...MWRA plans to reduce the CSO from 17.1 billion gallons a year in 1988 to 7.8 million gallons a year by 2013. Laskey said that this move marks a “great day for the river and the people who use it.” But Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering Peter P. Rogers said that the cleanup was long overdue. “Rivers and lakes were supposed to be swimmable by 1983,” Rogers said yesterday. Because the “city of Boston did nothing to help this...
...should be put on hold until a new Dean of the Faculty and University President are chosen. “No curricular reform that’s going to be effective can be implemented effectively without the enthusiastic support of the dean and maybe the president,” McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 said.According to Lewis, a former Dean of the College, the incoming dean of the Faculty will want to have input on the proposals that he or she will have to implement. “A leader wants...
...word Institutional Investor exposé. Asked about the matter at the Faculty meeting by Professor Frederick H. Abernathy, Summers responded that he was “not knowledgeable of the facts and circumstances to express an opinion,” eliciting murmurs of skepticism from the audience. Abernathy, the McKay professor of mechanical engineering, said at the meeting that he had penned a letter to Houghton expressing concern about the matter. Houghton’s letter, addressed to Abernathy and made public by the University, was a reply to the professor’s query.In a brief interview last night...
...chemistry can enroll in a sophomore level Chemistry Department course, according to the undergraduate course catalogue. But in the Physics Department, a score of 5 on the mechanics section of the AP Physics C exam is needed to place into sophomore-level Physics 16, according to the course catalogue.Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics Eric Mazur, who served on the development committee for AP Physics from 1995-2000, said that the correlation between AP science exam scores and performance in college is weak.“In my class, I have had students with absolutely no physics background do better...