Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gradually, however, the Botany Department began to replace the Gardens with modern equipment; new greenhouses now hold rare live plants. War brought another shortage of expert help, and money ran low as interest lagged. The Gardens had outlived their usefulness...
William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and Perey W. Bridgeman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, will conclude the Law School Forum's five-day symposium on "Values for Modern Man" with a general discussion tonight. The final talk will get under way at 8 p.m. in the Cambridge High and Latin School auditorium...
...four previous discussion took up the question of "Values for Modern Man" in four specific areas of learning. Professors Howard Mumford Jones and F.O. Matthiessen spoke Monday on values from the point of view of "Arts and Letters." At the second meeting professor Sorokin and others discussed values in the social sciences...
Four scientists agreed last night that laboratory research can help man discover "natural" social laws, in the third session of the Law School Forum's symposium on "Values for Modern Man" in Langdell Courtroom...
...buying arms. Research agencies were consolidated. A review board was formed to evaluate new weapons. But the total savings to the nation's expenditure resulting from these meetings have so far been insignificant--Forrestal estimated them as $10,000,000 last year, approximately the cost of a single modern destroyer--and the fundamental inter-service jurisdictional disputes are still unsolved; it is now Eisenhower's job to solve them...