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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: May 23 Letters inexcusably maligns scientists, apropos their ready remarriage and hypothetical helplessness. Myself and scientist friends have built our own houses. We can do plumbing, carpentry, electric wiring and painting. We have sold merchandise, bought stock, and written copy. We raise vegetables and live stock as well as children; can cook, keep house and nurse the sick. Perhaps a few professors of now-scientific subjects are inept, but as for scientists, they look like hardware dealers, work like millwrights and catch on like columnists. We can prove this by cases at Berkeley and Stanford as well as here...
President Conant, glooms Porter Sargent, started out as Harvard's head "with the naivete and boldness of a scientist," but soon "sacred cows were jostled'' and today Conant has subsided "to the dead level of mass alumni opinion." Sprightly, 66-year-old Porter Sargent criticizes President Conant most severely for keeping as head of Harvard's sociology department Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, whom he calls a pseudo-scientist, a defeatist and a reactionary. "Harvard is maintaining him in a position of influence where he is misguiding and frustrating American youth. . . . The sociology department is the White Russian...
...light any new material about Newton, and he draws freely on other biographers. But Sullivan was fascinated by the human being which harbored such a magnificent mind, and from the available material he tried to draw, with fair success, a clearer picture of the 17th Century's greatest scientist as a person...
...years: he has taught Chemistry 5 every year since 1912, when he came to Harvard after 20 years of teaching at Bryn Mawr. One of the first two graduate students who studied with him was James B. Conant '14, who also worked under him during the war. As a scientist, he was outstanding--his work in unsaturated organic compounds is internationally known and respected--but it was as a teacher and a man that the unique quality of his personality made itself most felt...
...Health: "If there is one thing that Taurus likes better than a big juicy steak it is the money with which to buy another one. . . ." Vocation: "Taurus is the sign governing the throat and vocal organs. ... It gives a deep, low voice, with soft, mellow tones. . . ." For a scientist's findings on astrology, see TIME, May 16. Let TIME readers who are interested in astrological parallels reread TIME'S story on broad-faced Orson Welles...