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Some vast new provinces may soon be added to the occupied territories of science. Last week, at the centennial celebration of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School (see EDUCATION), two Nobel Prizewinners described exciting discoveries...
Some of the nation's top scientists gathered last week at Yale to honor the nation's first and one of its best scientific research centers (see SCIENCE). They could reasonably have expected to hear self-congratulatory speeches on the centennial of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School. Instead, from the school's director himself, they heard the explicit suggestion that science doesn't know all the answers, and never will...
Weird Mysteries. As head of Sheffield (he is also president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Dr. Sinnott presides over a school that grew out of a dank laboratory, 15 feet below the ground because the architect was fearful of "the black arts, explosions . . . and weird-like mysteries" of chemistry. The cellar lab was built for Professor Benjamin Silliman, the father of scientific teaching in the U.S.-whose name was frequently honored at Sheffield's centennial last week...
...close the perilous gap between the progress of science and the progress of morals, Yale University announced last week that it will double its science courses for liberal arts students, double required courses in the humanities for science majors. Said Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott, director of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School: "Science alone may make monsters...
...Packers. Big Steel has yet to report, but the little-steel companies were fat. Sloss-Sheffield's $872,398 net was up 92% over 1946; Detroit Steel Corp.'s $2,747,433 up 63%; American Steel Foundries' $1,951,439 up 71%; Continental Steel Corp.'s $641,454 up 39%. Only Republic Steel Corp., whose second-quarter net of $5,214,820 was only half that of the first quarter, showed the rise in costs the producers complained about. Even so, its $16 million net in six months was four times its profit in the corresponding...