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...subcommittee created by the Faculty Committee on Research Policy to advise the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the possible participation of that Faculty in the Cambridge Project wishes to obtain both written and oral testimony from members of the University community concerning their opinions about the project and issues that might be raised by Harvard participation in the program...
...subcommittee hopes that letters will address themselves not only to the Cambridge Project specifically, but also to any broader issues of research policy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences which might be suggested by the Cambridge Project...
Harvard astronomers are particularly proud of OSO's flexibility. "An ordinary satellite takes the same type of data continuously," said Martin S. Huber, a Research Associate who calibrated the experiment. "But we have a real observatory with an almost infinite number of observation possibilities." The telescope can view the sun in one of 10,000 different wavelengths of ultra-violet light and can aim at a single point, take a picture of the entire sun, or scan an area only 1/15 the size of the sun's visible disc. Where earlier OSO satellites were able to take only one picture...
...take advantage of this flexibility, six Harvard scientists decide each observation schedule on a day-to-day basis. The six include Robert W. Noyes, lecturer on Astronomy, and Andrea K. Dupree and George L. Withbroe, Research Fellows at the Observatory, as well as Huber, Parkinson, and Reeves. One of the six, called the "duty scientist," is on 24-hour call each day to care for OSO, and the group meets every day at noon to discuss OSO's latest result...
...Fainsod report also recommended inclusion of students on such committees as the Library, Athletics, Dramatics, Graduate and Career Plans. Student Activities, and Study Counsel. But, it added. "we do not believe it to be wise or appropriate to include students as members of research or degree committees which deal with purely Faculty matters or which are engaged in making professional judgments about the qualifications of students for degrees...