Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article in the British journal Nature this month, Dr. Williams described his success in extracting from human tissue a hormone that controls metamorphosis of insects. When applied to caterpillars of this hormone prevents their becoming butterflies. "Unfortunate publicity," according to Dr. Williams, has apparently deluded hundreds of the nation's oldsters into taking the chemical for what the New York Times calls "a biological Joshua commanding the biological sun to stand still...
...agree that it would be better for the future business and professional man if he spent less time on studies: If he did, he would get less out of college and be less successful. President Lowell, many years ago, showed a high correlation of academic achievement and later success. A few years ago I studied this problem and found that a few hundred summas and high magna students in economics over 30 years had achieved much more than other Harvard graduates...
Defending his admissions' policy, Dean Bender said yesterday that "I do not think we should judge the success or failure of our policy on a single shift like this." The class of '61, he noted, "has many people who are very interesting, but also risky and erratic...
...students are not encouraged to think beyond lines laid down by teachers. Cramming for exams swallows a large proportion of the students' time, and since questions are drawn by lot from lists circulated weeks beforehand, it is possible for a hard-working parrot to have huge scholastic success. For panicked patriots who insist that the-U.S. look abroad for an educational model-something he does not suggest-Hechinger reports that Norwegian academies teach more math and physics than Soviet schools, and that "any French high school graduate would find the Russian [final] exam a breeze...
Years Ahead. P-B's success is tied to one man. President Walter Heber Wheeler. 61. Towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Walter Wheeler was an All-Eastern football tackle at Harvard in 1916, a subchaser skipper and Navy Cross winner in World War I, and a champion sailor. He joined the company in 1919, when it was a struggling small business directed by his stepfather, the late Walter H. Bowes. Bowes teamed with Inventor Arthur H. Pitney to develop the first crude postage meter. Wheeler went to Washington in 1920, presided over the demonstration of the machine that...