Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...science is necessary to the preservation of freedom, he pointed out, freedom is necessary to the overall advancement of science. "It is in this strong conviction that I particularly stress the freedom of the scholar and the researcher." On the other hand, the scientific specialist must "understand that his first responsibility to himself and to his country is to be a good citizen. Above all he must comprehend how his own work fits in effectively in promoting the national welfare...
Though some specialized displays--such as the Bronze Age tools--which are designed for the use of graduate students, have been newly revised, some of the small rooms await completion and others have yet to be renovated. For the specialist, this means that the displays are hopelessly out-of-date and educationally ineffective...
...cataloguing, a specialist in the field is needed to remedy these ills. For instance, it took one graduate student one and a half years of laborsome research to revise four cases of Iroquois and Algonquin tools. For every item selected, a thousand were discarded. This is something which more money could not quickly accomplish for the Museum. Yet here too money could help. It seems only fair that those volunteers who devote so much extra time to the Museum be remunerated. Also, an honorarium for such services would encourage others who are qualified but far less free with their time...
...areas which the Peabody Museum has done over completely, such as the Copan exhibits, many details need improvement, especially the casts of steles and the unmarked cases of Nicaraguan ceramics. The specialist's rooms have taken so long to rearrange that their usefulness as educational exhibits is disturbed for an unreasonably long period of time. In the areas that the Peabody can revise only when it gets the proper funds, such as the African and Oceanic halls, the present state is deplorable and quite untenable...
Norm Shepard has countered with Byron Johnson, a control specialist who looked good in beating Cornell last Saturday. Johnson is basically a relief pitcher, with a tendency to lose his effectiveness in the late innings when he starts, and Shepard had hoped to hold him in reserve for relief work against Yale...