Word: professor
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...fail to see what students would be kept out by such admission requirements," Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, commented. Jones asserted that "any student intelligent enough to come to Harvard should be able to pass such tests...
Commenting on her course, Nat. Sci. 9, Mrs. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Professor of Astronomy, denied "the slightest need for a change in Nat. Sci. 9," even though she "doubted" that the course meets with the recommendations of the Committee. She asserted that "no matter what the Report says, when I give a course, I give it the way I want...
Leonard K. Nash, associate professor of Chemistry, who gives Nat. Sci. 4, said that "if any sweeping changes are going to be made in the Natural Sciences, I am not going to make them. I hope, of course, to improve my course, but I will not make any changes because of recent developments," he added...
William G. Weston, professor of Cryptogamic Botany, emeritus, said that he and Edward O. Wilson, associate professor of Zoology, who teaches the other half of Nat. Sci. 8, "certainly do not plan any drastic changes." He said that "although some people seem to feel that the General Education courses are waterd-down for non-concentrators, Nat. Sci. 8 is not and will not be as long as I am around...
...College is admitting people who are "totally illiterate since they have no knowledge of science or math--the language of our time," George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, charged yesterday...