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...electron microscope leads scientists a long way downward into the realm of the infinitesimally small. Using magnetically focused electron beams instead of light beams, it discloses details (of germs, chemicals, etc.) 20 or more times finer than can be seen with optical microscopes (TIME, Oct. 28). Fortnight ago its beams cleared up another dark corner. In Rochester, tart, smart, British-born Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, head of research at Eastman Kodak Co., announced it had upset old notions of how silver is distributed in photographic films...
...like to hope that a university might be a place where there would be cultivation of an ability to look at events sub specie eternitatis and where fear, anger and hatred would be avoided as shortsighted, destructive of clear thinking, and too closely skin to the animal realm...
Through a delightful realm of fantasy, burlesque, satire, medieval curiosa and gentle moralizing wander countless strange folk, such as the Cockney knight, Sir Meliagrance ("Yes, Ma'am, in 'arf a minute"). Typical episode: Lancelot stuck his sword in the ground, and went over to examine the wound. . . . "You've cut open my liver" said the man accusingly...
...Democratic House and even a Democratic Supreme Court. It is apparently not enough to have a people solidly in favor of peace. Then what is it these men want when they call for unity? If it is blind, unqualified support of all President Roosevelt's specific acts in the realm of foreign policy, then they are asking for a major step toward...
...terms of its original definition the phrase academic freedom has "no meaning whatsoever" for those in statu pupillari, but is "restricted to the work of professors and scholars." The counterpart of academic freedom in the realm of the undergraduate is "student freedom," implying similar rights and responsibilities. Off the Campus, the faculty member as an individual has complete freedom of action--with the understanding that he will "do all in his power to avoid doing anything to injure his University's reputation." His right to hold isolationist views, say, or to criticise domestic policy and national defense, is guaranteed...