Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, the author of Darkness at Noon announced: "Cassandra has gone hoarse and is due for a vocational change." Lately, the polemicist has turned pedagogue. The Sleepwalkers is an animated and diverting lecture on cosmology, man's vision of the universe from the Babylonians to Newton...
...Baal. To the scientific orchestra that had been tuning up in sections for centuries, Newton's law of gravity brought the exhilarating unity of a conductor's baton. The music of the spheres, in which the ancients believed literally, at last existed symbolically in the harmony of a Newtonian universe under the common rule of certain natural laws. But the post-Newtonian universe has again become something of a mystery, notes Koestler. He quotes the late Sir James Jeans, who suggested that "the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...
...Baptist churches in Belmar, Arlington and Clifton, N.J. before becoming minister of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in 1933. In 1955, during Harvard Divinity's $5,000,000 renaissance, Pastor Miller became Professor Miller-lecturing on pastoral theology at Harvard and the philosophy of religion at Andover-Newton Theological School...
This year, HUT sent 8 students to Newton and Brookline High Schools. According to Goldberg, the Brookline school has expressed "extreme enthusiasm" and might consider subsidizing part of the HUT program next year. At present, PBH provides funds for transportation and publicity...
...Newton emphasizes that the Faculty does not look upon the Arch. Sci. program as only a preparation for the GSD. Like all the departments of the College it is non-professional. (However, it is possible for qualified seniors to combine the last year of college studies and the first year in GSD. Last year only nine of 16 persons qualified took the option.) Instead Newton believes that Arch. Sci. "is as legitimate a field for general education as any other." It serves as an introduction to a profession whose basis is no less than "fulfillment of the social requirements...