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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dyke Benjamin came close to breaking the Harvard record for the two-mile run with a time of 9 min., 25.4 sec. last Saturday in the Fourth Annual University of Connecticut Relays at Storrs, Conn. The present record for the race is 9min...
Butterfield, who will give the first Horblit Lecture on the History of Science, tomorrow, spoke about science's present role as a vital force in civilization and said, "Don't imagine it can go on forever." He ventured that today's science will carry on to something new and compared its present role with that of scholasticism in the Middle Ages...
Demanding any level of math achievement as a prerequisite for admission would be an unhealthy move. The present requirements are in line with those of many universities; instituting a math requirement would assume that Harvard's influence in elevating high-school standards is quite significant. Such an assumption does not seem well-grounded; for the schools which would respond by directing their college prospects to take the courses Harvard demands are probably those schools who now teach the most mathematics anyway. But the rural, Western and Southern schools which offer only a curricular minimum are unlikely to change to meet...
...atmosphere where business is heavily taxed, Wililams' opponents have claimed that his policies brought on the present situation by discouraging new investment, but there is little question that their criticism of his welfare-at-any-cost policies are much closer to home. In the midst of the attempts to pay current expenses, Williams was reported to be planning a budget increase of $150 million for fiscal 1960. Observers seem to think that he will succeed in bailing out the current debts through borrowing against trust funds, but it does not seem likely that he will get his increase. The state...
Another question to be considered by the committee is the possible modification of public relations policy. An effort should be made, Ford said, to "present the public with a picture of Harvard that is something other than a center for egg-head genuises...