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For many others, the discovery that Harvard is not an intellectual utopia and that brilliance is not tantamount to social acceptance brings a crisis in the whole attitude toward knowledge. A vision of Harvard which anticipates social success arising from intellectual ability is often reason for coming, and the discovery...
By last week, BRL 1241 had acquired two trade names (one each for Britain and the U.S.)-Celbenin and Staphcillin -and was ready for market. A synthesized, chemically produced penicillin, developed mainly under the direction of four British doctors, all under 40, the new drug promises to become a potent...
Woodward's starting point was aceto-acetic ester, a very ordinary chemical, which was then broken into four different compounds called pyrroles. Then followed what Woodward calls "tailoring the framework"-meaning that he and his 17 helpers devised subtle chemical tricks to put together the skeleton of the chlorophyll...
* For those who care to try it themselves, the first sentence of Woodward's seven-page description of the synthesis, as reported to the Journal of the American Chemical Society, reads: "2 -(β, β-Dicyanovinyl)-3, 5-dimethyl-4-ethylpyrrole was converted by sulfuryl chloride in acetic acid at...
"The seminary cannot be a trade school," says McCord, and the first task is to cut down on proliferating specialized courses. In their place the faculty must achieve some sort of philosophic unity for the students. "We cannot go on expecting each student to achieve a synthesis on his own...