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...other hand the behavioral sciences share much, though by no means all, of the concern and the methodology of the natural sciences. Both seek to establish abstract regularities in the behavior of the objects they study and when possible they test their new insights by the success of their predictions...
...Natural Science. Courses in Natural Science should continue to seek the objectives defined in the Bruner Report of 1959: to give the student both a "knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science" and an idea of the methods of science as they are known today."...We do not wish to suggest undue emphasis on methodology: the scientific method in its many forms should continue to be taught primarily through the study of the substance of science. But we think an increase in the amount of laboratory work in General Education courses would deepen the student's awareness...
...York's Democratic party badly needs a popular candidate to run against the well-entrenched Keating. Mayor Robert Wagner of New York City had been the obvious choice but he has made absolutely clear his determination not to seek the Senate seat. A plethora of other local politicians have expressed interest in the nomination but none, with the possible exception of Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., has the necessary stature to fight a successful campaign. Some New York City Democrats suggested Adlai Stevenson, but his own reluctance, combined with his crushing loss of New York to Eisenhower in 1956, has made...
This Spring the city sent a resident physician at the city hospital to the Phillipines to seek interns for next year, it was also revealed at Monday night's meeting. The mission was reportedly successful, and the hospital has secured its quota of interns from Filipino medical schools...
Perhaps the play's greatest moment comes when Miss Tolentino, as Clytemnestra's ghost, stalks onto a stage where two large brown lumps lie. She howls, outraged that Orestes remains free, and the lumps dissolve into the avenging Furies, awakened and ready once again to seek the matricide's death. They are magnificently horrible, as frightening to the audience as they obviously are to Orestes...