Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, will act as toastmaster. Other speakers will be John L. Saltonstall, Jr. '38, who ran for Congress in the tenth district last fall; Robert Murphy, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts; and Endicott Peabody '42, who sought nomination for attorney-general last summer...
...Committee on Educational Policy admissions subcommittee will study the problem posed by the large number of Freshmen who change their minds each year about concentrating in the Natural Sciences, Franklin L. Ford, associate professor of History and chairman of the group, announced yesterday...
Commenting on the problem, Leonard K. Nash, associate professor of chemistry, said, "I do not see any panacea. However, I am not sure the situation is serious because most of the people who drop out are not suited to be scientists anyway...
Ford stated that his committee would consider the drop-off of science concentrators "in connection with other problems rather than specifically by itself." Another committee member, Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Jr., professor of Biology, added that it was very important for the group to investigate the scientific background of the average applicant in order to determine "where science fits into a liberal education today...
...ahead, Edward P.Morris, head tutor of the Department of Romance Languages, says. This superiority, however, is not due to innate ability, but rather to "instilled habits." "Fewer girls than boys get E's. Their average minimum level of conscientiousness is probably higher than the boys'," I. Bernard Cohen, associate professor of the History of Science, points out. "Whenever I've heard of someone spending a preposterous amount of time on some project like a paper, it has generally been a girl. For instance I read in the Confidential Guide that one girl said she worked for 52 hours...