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Paul C. Mangelsdorf, professor of Botany, his wife, and Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, received a total of $81,000 in research grants from the Rockefeller Foundation during the last quarter of 1958, a Foundation report announced recently. In addition, Francis M. Pipkin, assistant professor of Physics, has been named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow by the Sloan Foundation...
...recent report by the Committee on Science in General Education represents an another unsuccessful attempt to clarify the role of science in a college curriculum, and by implication in the more general body of educated men. It is unsuccessful because it does not seem willing to admit the unusual characteristics which surround science as an intellectual discipline...
...very beginning of its report the Committee gives the following motivation for its investigations: "The increasingly important role that science plays in shaping the lives of men makes it urgent that graduates of Harvard College should have some idea of the discipline which is ultimately responsible for this influence...
Behind this report, of course, is the idea that responsible Americans of the future will have to make important decisions involved with the complexity of modern life, and since science plays such a decisive role in this complex, it follows that educated men should know something about science. Unfortunately, however, there is a major difference between science and a field such as Comparative Literature--a difference of language. Whereas any intelligent person who has a certain facility with words can understand the weighty sentences of the expert in Comp. Lit., the same is not true in general of science. Indeed...
...order that the faculty be able conveniently to offer such courses, the report suggested that the various science departments increase their staffs where necessary and that in filling new positions due attention be given, as is rarely the case at present, to the problem of elementary instruction...