Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some faculty members in the sciences have remarked that Harvard has not been active enough in creating a public image of itself as a leader in science education and research. If Harvard were only to present the "true" picture of itself to prospective applicants, this argument runs, increased knowledge that Harvard is not merely concerned with the liberal arts would attract more and better science talent to the College...
Secondly, J. L. Falk, Research Fellow in Psychology, is using Hicks' malformed rats in experiments to determine the functions of several parts of the brain. Falk has accumulated much evidence that proves that the cerebral cortex discriminates between the size and shape of different objects...
...Basic Research" Needed...
...went on to point out that the technological and engineering advances of our time spring from more fundamental and equally important advances in "basic science." "Planned research" is, according to Pusey, impossible, and he asked that the government, as it takes inevitably a greater and greater role in the support of pure science, not give grants with the expectation of specific results in a given period of time...
...universities, Pusey said, are the proper places for pure research, for in them the scientist is free to follow, without the pressure of deadlines, the scholars' "desire to know." From such a viewpoint, the oft-voiced opinion that science is incompatible with the humanistic tradition of Harvard would be greatly undermined...