Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superintendent said that he had not complained about several similar incidents during the past two years, but that he had "finally had enough of these attacks on the building...
...leave the College knowing a little high school algebra and plane geometry, having an idea of the biological developments through history, and nothing else. It is possible to graduate from Harvard with no conception whatsoever of the physical sciences; and yet perhaps more than any other force over the past 150 years the physical sciences have shaped the form of our lives...
Science, to a greater extent than other disciplines, carries its past along with it. Whereas in humanities, for instance, the ideas of Plato are of considerable relevance today even though they are not included in the work of modern theorists, this is not the case in the natural sciences. Modern quantum theory contains a great deal of the older work of Newton, Laplace, Poisson, Hamilton, Jacobi, and Bohr. Indeed, a present concept of the physical truth is but a modification, reforming, and improvement of older ideas...
...natural sciences should, therefore, institute courses which examine some particular field of general relevance in modern science using past developments to lead up to the central problem of concern. In physics, for example, a course in particle theory could be used as a specific standpoint from which to develop an understanding of the modern scientific method which has a far more general application than the subject immediately at hand. Similar courses in biology, chemistry and physiology can easily be envisioned, and they would serve a purpose beyond their theoretical value. They would enable the Committee on General Education to obtain...
These courses should emphasize an understanding of the modern with an awareness of the past's relevence and an approach to general methods and concepts through the specific. It is hoped that these courses will introduce such essential tools as the calculus where needed and that ultimately they will lead to a far stronger appreciation of science and what it means today than is generally given at be present time...