Word: specializations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White House announced yesterday the appointment of George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and former Chairman of the Department, as Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology...
This approach has already been considered by a special committee of the Student Council that is now studying the entire athletic system. Abraham F. Lowenthal '61, chairman of the group, said yesterday that the value of intercollegiate participation in some sports would be weighed against their cost. The idea exists that these might profitably be replaced with less expensive intramural programs...
...Persistent Partnership." Since the "strength, growth and vitality of our science and engineering . . . hinge primarily upon the efforts of private individuals." said the President, "I derive special satisfaction from the fact that this conference is sponsored by private interests [the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Science]. The Federal Government, with its vast resources, could largely . . . blunt private initiative and individual opportunity. This we must never permit." Government's role: "a persistent partnership" with private institutions...
...special feature is a stretch of bench that might be marked in Braille, "Please touch the flowers." Designed for blind children, it contains cacti without thorns, a patch of herbs including several fragrant geraniums such as the lemon, rose, nutmeg and mint varieties. Within hours of its dedication, the exhibit's leaves had been thoroughly pawed, and many a blind child had pressed scented fingers to nostrils dilating with the joy of discovery...
...order to "cut down on all future infiltration as well as to pin the blame for those subversives who slip by," Robertson proposed a special committee to pass on all Faculty and staff appointments. Presumably, its members would include Veritas sympathizers and others who would "oppose, vigorously, all attempts at Harvard, to shackle, to suppress or to discourage the expression of the Constitutional, conservative, free enterprise point of view...