Word: smyth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbara K. Smyth, Radcliffe '50, won the John Osborne Sargent Prize for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem Horace. The award amounts...
...course: the suggested method, to do so by using "case histories." In an introductory chapter President Conant develops the concept of the role of science in the non-scientist's education and responsibilities. There is nothing new here. From such diverse sources as the General Education Report and the Smyth Report on Atomic Energy, the growing need for some sort of mass comprehension of science has been iterated and reiterated. When President Conant concludes that the layman can best understand science through its tactics and strategy, rather than by means of "even the basic principles or simplest facts," he moves...
...experts worried about the atomic Mr. Hyde. In the current issue of the Pulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a calmly horrifying article by Ansley Coale: "Reducing Vulnerability to Atomic Attack."* Prepared with the advice of a distinguished scientific committee (including farmed Physicists I. I. Rabi and Henry DeWolf Smyth), the article arrives at a dismal conclusion: there isn't really much hope for anyone-once the atom bombs start falling...
...pound class boasted some of the day's best wrestling as Tom Smyth turned in two outstanding performances in eliminating Frank Goodwin and Cliff Fichtner. Smyth will face Buddy King, also of Eliot House, in one of five finals to be held on Thursday...
Fresh Beer, Stale Gags. There were bull sessions everywhere and at all hours, and 75 kegs of beer to keep them afloat. There were a few more formal meetings of minds: in Baker Rink, Physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, who wrote the War Department's Smyth Report, ran a forum on atomic energy. But most of the talk was the chitchat of old grads-who was doing what, and where, and to whom; what had happened to so-and-so; the off-color jokes, the old, corny gags. The commonest initial emotion was embarrassment-the desperate stab at a classmate...