Word: research
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...most striking evidence of the desire to improve is shown by the growth of independent study programs in the junior and senior years. Under the careful direction of Dr. E. Sculley Bradley, vice-Provost for undergraduate studies, the College's English department has established a plan for individual research with only two formal course requirements--a regular class in Junior year and a senior seminar in the major field. Bradley foresees a continuation of the trend toward independent work, and other departments are working to formalize programs similar to that for English concentrators...
H.B.G. Casimir, physicist and director of Phillips Research Laboratories at Eindhoven, Netherlands, is scheduled to deliver the first lecture of the series, "Science in Industry," Thursday, Nov. 12, at Adams House. Casimir will also preside over a Physics Colloquium Monday...
...morning, the group of student visitors--average age 25.5 years--met with Dean Bundy to discuss further American-Soviet exchange programs. Following a closed luncheon in Quincy House, the group wandered through Widener, Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger, Peabody Museum, and the Russian Research Center...
Their trip is part of an exchange program arranged during Mikoyan's stay here last fall by the Committee for Economic Development, a non-profit research group of prominent businessmen. Plans for the return half of the program indicate that several prominent American economists will visit the Soviet Union next summer...
...other climate could eventually be nothing but detrimental to the academic atmosphere. During the Program for Harvard College, Pusey said one goal of the fund-raising was "to attract to Cambridge a constellation of the world's great minds, making the banks of the Charles--from the research centers beyond M.I.T. at the southern extremity as far as Eliot House on the north--a world capital of knowledge and research." Without a flourishing city, this dream could not come true...