Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent freshman classes have indicated a desire to concentrate in the sciences, but a considerably smaller percentage actually does. Any number of factors might contribute to the drop-off--a sudden discovery of the liberal arts, a discouraging decline in grades, or possibly the deglamorization of the role of scientist in a freshman's mind (just as a horde of students who list "writer" as an occupational preference end up lawyers and teachers...
...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...
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., 35, Navy lieutenant commander; 160 lbs., 5 ft. 11 in., blue eyes, brown hair. Christian Scientist. Born: East Derry, N.H.; graduated U.S. Naval Academy, '44 (462nd in a class of 913). In World War II, Al Shepard saw Pacific combat on the destroyer Cogswell, then won his wings ('47), and after a Mediterranean tour with the fleet qualified as a test pilot, flew high-altitude research missions, helped develop the Navy's in-flight refueling system and carrier landings of the F2H-3 Banshee. With 3,600 flight hours (1,700 in jets...
Many of the students who decide not to continue in the field of science do so because they come to college with false ideas concerning the work of a scientist, Dean Bundy pointed out. President Pusey suggested as the reason for this misconception the fact that many high school teachers are not professional scientists...
This was no sudden shift for Actress Taylor, who had been raised as a Christian Scientist. She first thought of adopting the Jewish faith when she married her third husband, the late Mike Todd-born Avrom Goldbogen, grandson of a Polish rabbi. Her friendship with Singer Eddie Fisher, a Jew, may have increased her concern with Judaism. About six months ago she began studying under Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Hollywood's Temple Israel...