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...director a flashlight and urge him to stay on the job after sundown; the mechanical eye that sees so well in the dark is far too expensive a gadget to be used for casual beaver watching. But the demonstration was impressive proof that the device invented by Dutch Physicist Albert Bouwers is astonishingly sensitive. Its practical applications seem limited only by the imagination of its users...
...Sister J." She is Sister Jacqueline Grennan, S.L., 36, vice president of Missouri's Webster College, and her place on the panel is no concession to her sex or religion. She belongs in the trail-blazing company she keeps, an experimental elite-educators of educators-that includes M.I.T. Physicist Jerrold Zacharias, Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner and U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel. To Colleague Bruner, "she is in the great tradition of the abbesses of the 16th century." Co-Panelist Zacharias, a frugal man with superlatives, says, "She may well turn out to be the Joan...
...much training in method and too little in subject content, she set up a new series of courses to turn out specialists in mathematics and French. She asked Robert B. Davis, professor of mathematics at Syracuse University, to direct her math project at precisely the same time that Physicist Zacharias was trying to lure Davis to M.I.T. Sister Jacqueline won, and Davis goes to Webster College every other week on a flying commute. To head up the new French program, Sister Jacqueline got Elizabeth Ratte, director of the much-admired Foreign Languages in Elementary Schools program in the Lexington, Mass...
Illinois College JAMES A. VAN ALLEN, physicist.. Sc.D...
Looking to her own, Harvard chose for distinction within her Faculty Sir Hamilton Gibb, the Arabist and University Professor who heads the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Letters); the retired historian of America Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. (Letters); Harvey Brooks, physicist and Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics (Science); and Augustus Thorndike '19, surgeon at the Medical School (honorary...