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...NEWTON COLLEGE CHAPEL. David Mitchell playing the Casavant organ, assisted by violinist Edgar Edwards. Works of Bach, Dupre, Lubeck, Mozart, and Schroeder. April...
...South House and La Jolla, Calif.; David L. Johnson of Adams House and Indianapolis,; Herman B. Leonard of Currier House and New York City; Joseph F. Nagy of Claverly Hall and Arlington; Eliot W. Nelson of Dunster House and Berkeley, Calif.; Edward M. Stolper of Winthrop House and Newton; and Jack D. Welch III of Dunster House and Marlin, Texas...
Under the stubborn prodding of Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton and Copernicus' other intellectual heirs, questions of nature were thrust directly into the combative, public arena of empirical inquiry. For the first time, experiments became crucial. Theories were supported by close observation. The new scientific method, stressing reason and logic, was born. Individual scientists might still occasionally be wrong-sometimes outrageously so, as when Newton believed that the sun was inhabited. Yet it was the testing of such hypotheses, however farfetched, that caused a new intellectual excitement to sweep the Western world, a determination to explore, understand...
...rebuilt after each major conceptual shift. Paradigms is the word he uses for those overreaching models and theories according to which each new era of science conducts its normal, day-to-day operations. Copernicus, for example, established a new paradigm of science with his heliocentric universe, overthrowing the old. Newton did likewise, and so did Einstein. Following such fundamental changes, "normal" scientists go back to work again, but with a different set of assumptions. Maslow pointed out that it is these "normal" technicians who created the stereotype of scientists as mechanical men with narrow vision. The innovative, imaginative paradigm makers...
...following Radcliffe juniors have been elected to the Iota Chapter Phi Beta Kappa. Those elected are: Joan L. Aron of Winthrop House and Newton; Cynthia A. Bates of Currier House and Newport News, Va.; Phyllis A. James of Currier House and Washington, D.C.; Patricia L. Lansdale of Adams House and Garrison, Md.; Martha E. Morgan of Quincy House and Jefferson City, Mo.; Barbara R. Peskin of South House and West Northfield, Ill.; Dale S. Russakoff of Lowell House and Birmingham, Ala.; and, Andrea R. Weiss of Lowell House and Wyncote...