Word: naturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost as well known was Jim Smith's yen for Gates's job after he finished a self-imposed two-year ICA tour. Smith, a wartime carrier pilot and postwar Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air (1953-56), appeared a natural to become Secretary. But Gates, with...
"Such first hand experience with actual science is necessary for any educated person," Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy, countered. Aiken supported the report's conclusion that General Education in the natural sciences must include detailed knowledge of some particular science.
Another non-science Faculty member, Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, concurred wholeheartedly with the report, terming it "a very sound and sensible job." He noted that a stronger program would increase the enticements of natural science as a career.
The whole problem of establishing Natural Science courses is the affair of those who must conduct them, Stephen Gilman, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, maintained. "They are mature, sensible men who should be left alone to do what they think best."
Not far from the Wolfe papers, along another aisle, five massive editions of the Tibetan scipture, the Tripitaka, lie wrapped with yellow burlap covers. This great work is a sort of Tibetan wonder book, combining holy writ with popular ideas on political and natural science. On the outside of each...