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...Education Program has sprung at last from the pages of the Harvard Report to become an accepted college institution. The first major change in the elective system since President Lowell's regime, the new Program has passed its first test and starting next fall, will expand from its present nucleus of eight general courses, limited to Freshmen and Sophomores, to a comprehensive department, embracing many fields and open to all four classes...
With an opening win over Amherst under their belts, the Varsity is getting a "working nucleus" of talent lined up for future matches. "We're still weak in sabers, but the rest of the team is coming along fine. We should have some good contests in our future trips," Van Roosen concluded...
...week, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, ex-head of the Los Alamos (atom bomb) Laboratory, postulated a new sub-atomic particle: the neutral meson, which leads an even more feverishly active life than the positive and negative meson which scientists already know about. In its normal habitat within an atomic nucleus, it "lives" only one hundredth of a sextillionth (1/100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th) of a second. The neutral meson's brief life, remarked Professor Oppenheimer, may be the reason no physicist has yet seen...
With only a nucleus of his team experienced, Peroy is gloomy about his prospects for the coming season, which includes tourneys with such formidable opposition as Army, Cornell, and Columbia...
...Canadair plant, near Montreal, which was operated for the Government during the war by Canadian Vickers Ltd. Howe wanted the plant to go on making the North Star transport, a modified Douglas DC-4, thus 1) keep 7,500 workers in their jobs and 2) preserve the nucleus of an air industry. He could not find a well-heeled Canadian willing to do the job. But last week he found an American corporation: the Electric Boat Co. of Manhattan and Groton, Conn., manufacturer of submarines, PT boats, pleasure craft and engines...