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Johnson, a 44-year-old industrial management specialist, is the third non-scientist to be president of M.I.T. He joined the faculty in 1955, and since 1959 has been dean of the university's Alfred P. Sloane School of Management. Actually, yesterday's ceremony was only a formality; Johnson became president on July 1 when Julius Stratton retired to head the Ford Foundation...
...only non-scientist to receive honors at the luncheon was Coolidge, a member of the law firm of Ropes and Gray. He is presently serving as a fellow of the College and a trustee of Radcliffe...
...Greater emphasis will be placed on the newer social sciences, and there will be more stress on science to show the non-scientist the intellectual achievement of science in a more flexible general education program," Ford said...
...sense the fault is with scientists who in explaining non-conservation of parity are preoccupied with its sophisticated ramifications. These are undeniably important to other scientists. This preoccupation, however, does cause difficulties in communication with non-scientists and obscures the broader significance of the overthrow of a scientific law. Such an overthrow is most significant to the non-scientist as a lesson in the psychology of science, or more broadly, in the psychology of scholarly inquiry. Joel Tenenbaum...
Admittedly, it is impossible logically to prove that such knowledge is necessary to the non-scientist. A classics professor may ride an airplane, watch leaves turn color, skid in his car--and have no idea why these things happen. He may not care, and it is hard to show that he needs to care...