Word: platt
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Postcards were received from Miss Blueye in Budapest on August 10 and August 17 by Radcliffe friends, according to Elizabeth Platt, resident of Jordan W where Miss Blueye lives at Radcliffe. Neither card mentioned any disturbance. There have been no further communications...
...notion that professors scorn undergraduate teaching proved wrong according to Talcott Parsons, Professor of Sociology, and Gerald M. Platt, Lecturer on Sociology, in their 3-year study of the American academic profession...
Parsons and Platt also found that academic freedom and tenure in office are more important than salary in attracting faculty members. However, they found that pressures to maintain competence are high under these conditions...
Expanding the gravity studies, Oyama and NASA Biologist William Platt have begun to use a new 26-ft.-radius centrifuge that can be supplied with food and cleansed of waste while it is running. On it, generations of rodents can be born and spend their entire lives under uninterrupted higher G. loads. From the responses of test animals-eventually including primates-Oyama hopes to predict the effects on astronauts of space trips that last for months and even years...
...will be theoretical, discussing the difference between the organization of a university and the organization of a bureaucratic or hierarchie institution. The other will be a description and analysis of the academic profession "by people who are in it rather than by people writing for the Atlantic Monthly," Platt said...