Word: piel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beta Kappa address at Harvard last June, Gerard Piel said: "But all too suddenly and unprepared, we have come to a fork in the road. The progress of which I speak has disclosed the noblest and most generous ends to human life and has placed in our hands the means to accomplish them here on this earth. In the command of those same means, progress has also given the power of irrevocable decision to our historic capacity for cruelty and folly...
Griswold quoted from the Phi Beta Kappa address given at Commencement by Gerard Piel, the publisher of Scientific American: "But all too suddenly and unprepared, we have come to the fork in the road. The progress of which I speak has disclosed the noblest and most generous ends to human life and has placed in our hands the means to accomplish them here on this earth, [and] has also given the power of irrevocable decision to our historic capacity for cruelty and folly...
...Gerard Piel, editor and publisher. Scientific American L.H.D...
Speaking will be: Gerard Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American and this year's Phi Beta Kappa orator; Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry; and Harvey Brooks, dean of the Engineering and Applied Physics faculty...
Their class, at least as it appeared then, was not an unusual one, though it contained many men who over the succeeding decades would do unusual things. Among that fall's freshmen, to name just a few, were Gerard Piel '37, destined years later to become publisher of Scientific American, John O'Keefe '37, who ended up working with Project Mercury and the Glenn Flight, and Edward Ahrens, Jr. '37, whose subsequent achievements in the field of medicine include the invention of Metrecal...