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...Sarton, Robert de San Marzano, Norman Lloyd and Gilbert Ralston do well by the leading roles. The whole company is sincere, hard-working and it is very likely that with better material they will achieve more impressive stature...
Others who will receive degrees are Albert Sauveur, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy and Metallography, who is known as a pioneer in that field and who is retiring from the Faculty this year; William Allan Neilson, President of Smith College; George Sarton, authority on the history of science; Thomas Mann, author of "Magic Mountain" and "Joseph and His Brothers"; John Campbell Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution...
...GEORGE SARTON: Historian of science and of learning, a scholar whose relentless toil and inspired vision are creating a new academic discipline...
...full course in science (not a half-course, as stated in the editorial) is required for admission to it. The history of science unquestionably requires a knowledge of at least six major fields: in its highest form it is a task of painstaking research and profound scholarship. Dr. Sarton's massive volumes, modestly titled "An Introduction to the History of Science," attests this well. To offer such a course to men who are too lazy to take an elementary science course would be the height of absurdity. And it is searcely tenable that "the only logical alternative is a complete...
...line with his principle of broadening the scope of learning and scholarship at Harvard and with the study of the history of science as a branch of higher learning as the result of the work of such men as Professer Thorndike at Columbia, Dr. Henderson and Dr. Sarton at Harvard. The now announcement does not reveal "the superficial character of University policy." In fact, it is even to be hoped that some day undergraduates may concentrate in the Department of the History of Science and Learning. George L. Haskins...