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Upon graduation from Stanford in 1952, McCord came to Harvard to work with Professors Sheldon Glueck and Gordon Allport. Shortly after his arrival he became a section man in Social Sciences 6, later directed a section Social Sciences 112--Human Relations. He received his Ph. D. in 1955, and since then has been teaching courses in Criminology, in Modern Social Thought, and seminars on group conflict and theories of conscience. In addition to his teaching, he has handled extensive administrative jobs, at present being Assistant Secretary of General Education and Head of the Board of Tutors in Social Relations...
...past few months in the University, consideration has been given to such ideas as the possible abolition of the M.A. degree, the shortening of the doctoral dissertation, the lessening of the course requirements for the Ph. D. and, in general, the encouragement of individual research and study...
Pray tell what are "Ph meters"? Laboratories might be interested in replacing pH meters with them...
...subsequent blaze of publisity, it would be announsed that the troublesome 'PH' would henseforth be written 'F'. This would make words like 'fonograf 20 persent shorter in print...
...which sense and correct their own errors, run entire plants without human help. Beyond the computers, the age of electronics has produced hundreds of knowing gadgets for every use under the sun. There are electronic elevator systems with miniature electronic brains that automatically keep track of passenger demand, electronic "Ph meters" that can test with equal ease the acidity of California's lemon juice or the radioactivity of the AEC's plutonium, electronic "stopwatches" for industrial and nuclear use that can time movement down to one-billionth of a second v. one-hundredth of a second for mechanical...