Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Often, however, the undergraduate in the "200" course gets more than he bargained for. He may be bored by his middle-group courses; he may be what Beer calls a "flashy" student. But the conference course means a shift from the "essay discipline" to the "research discipline." And when it comes to doing research, rather than recording somebody else's opinions, even the good student may, in Beer's words, "be breathing pretty hard when he gets through...
...however, are graduates steeped in the discipline. The archetype of the perpetual graduate, the professional scholar with 8 or 9G after his name, emerges from the D-level of Widener at rare intervals to watch the progress of the seasons. After squinting in the sunshine, he returns to painstaking research into the use of umlaut verbs in the 13th century...
...somewhat shaky step in the direction of an effective space program was taken by President Eisenhower a few weeks ago when he proposed that Congress establish a National Aeronautics and Space Agency to conduct research and to administer explorations. The Agency, "at the earliest possible date," would assume work done and undone by a maze of organizations, including the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Advisory Commission for Aeronautics...
...Defense Department agencies. In his message to Congress, Mr. Eisenhower said that the new Agency would control all programs save those "peculiar to or primarily associated with weapons systems..." The Defense Department has already made it clear that it believes that the Space Agency should devote its energies to research, which it defines as "fun in space...
Space near the earth is not as beset with micrometeorites as some space pessimists have feared. During last week's Washington meeting of the American Physical Society, Drs. Edward Manring and Maurice Dubin of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center told about the experiences of the Army's satellite Explorer I, which carries two meteorite detectors. One of them, a microphone that picks up the slight vibrations in the satellite's shell that are caused by the smallest dust particles, registered only seven hits during the 120 minutes that the transmitter could be heard. The other detector...