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When little Carolyn Joan Purcell had trouble seeing her Christmas gifts last year, Atlanta doctors thought she had cancer and would have to lose both eyes. But the Mayo Clinic disagreed, called it merely an infection, treated her with ACTH. In Alpharetta, Ga. last week 5-year-old Carolyn Joan...
Three officers of the University were this week elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, it was announced yesterday. They are: John T. Edsall '23, associate professor of Biological Chemistry; Samuel K. Lothrop '15, curator of Andean Archaeology; and Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics.
Concentrators generally complain that the professors and instructors are top rate men but were hired on the basis of leadership in their fields and not on teaching. Edward M. Purcell, Gerald J. Holton, and Adalbert E. Benfield are exceptions.
Purcell (11a fall term) is easily accessible, slow, careful and considered one of the best instructors in the department. Wendell H. Furry (11a, spring term) is fair and covers the ground, while Jabez C. Street's (11b) sparse, concise outlines tend to make his lectures not very clear.
In Georgia, the parents of Carolyn Joan Purcell, just turned five, looked forward to celebrating a particularly happy Easter. Last January, doctors had offered them the choice for their child of blindness by surgery or almost certain death from suspected cancer of her eyes (TIME, Jan. 15). The Purcells stubbornly...