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...presents a Boston newsreel program of movement films tonight at 8 p.m. at 2 Divinity Avenue. One of the films, "Black Panthers," is an interview in prison, with Huey Newton, the Minister of Defense for the Oakland Black Panthers...
...Leland Sanderson, second-year Divinity students,. and Dick Behm, a third-year student. All three handed in their draft cards at a rally at Arlington Street Church on October 16, 1967. The Supreme Court ruling came on a case appealed by James J. Ostereich, a divinity student at Newton Centre, who also handed in his card at the rally...
What exactly does a prep school education mean in terms of activities and performance at Harvard? To compare preppies and pubbies (public school graduates) we can use the exhaustive data of the Harvard Student Body Center. The data is slightly misleading because "elite" public schools such as Newton High are thrown in with the other public schools. Boston area public schools like Newton receive the same preferential treatment as prep schools. This tends to reduce the statistical gap between pubbies and preppies...
...Newton, probably the most important of all scientists, is surely nine-tenths myth. Absent-minded, able to concentrate exclusively on his work for long hours during his fertile period, and generally refusing to pay any attention to getting his work published. Newton is the type of the Scientific Genius. But there is a more sordid, or at least more human, side to Newton's life. After quarreling with one astronomer (John Flamsteed) he removed from the second edition of the Principia all passages from the first edition in which he had acknowledged his debt to the man. In a paper...
...occasional jealousy and bitterness. Newton is the rule rather than the exception among scientists. Disputes over priority, often exacerbated by intense nationalistic feelings, fill a lot of pages in the history of science...