Word: projects
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Beyond these matters, Hutchins' chief interests are his old ones. He is helping to sponsor a project, with Mortimer Adler at its head, to compile a giant index of the Great Books-a learned cross-file of all the great ideas the great minds have ever voiced. Meanwhile, as a result of brisk promotion by the university-organized Great Books Foundation, adult education classes in the Great Books are becoming a nationwide middlebrow vogue. Hutchins himself teaches one class of prominent Chicagoans (known as "The Fat Men's Course"). There are 50,000 other people hashing the books...
...Would the U.S. be ready for it? Could the U.S. win it? Could civilization survive the holocaust made possible by the new techniques of war? No one is better qualified to answer such questions than Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and of the project which produced the atom bomb; but in answering them he only half succeeds in removing from them the terror of the half-seen...
...travel down the St. Lawrence to the Great Lake ports, the geographical advantage of a New England steel mill would be materially diminished. The prospect of an important industry in New England threatened by the Seaway may well be the reason why New England senators fight the St. Lawrence project...
Since nearly all information that the group obtains will be of a "subjective nature," Poskanzer and Wyant believe the great value of their project will be in the "insight which it leads to the College situation." "Some specific recommenda- tions on matters that the committee generally agrees are feasible will be made, however," they stated...
Lowell has solved its common room problem by placing a movable set in the Coolidge Room opposite the Large Common Room. Of the two Houses now weighing the idea of television, Leverett is planning a special basement room, while Dunster--loss advanced in the project--asked its residents last month for suggestions as to where to place the set if bought...