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Although the Founding Fathers may not have anticipated it, political parties and pressure groups are today the very life of the American governmental process. To attempt to study our system without studying its parties and pressures is to try to make an omelet when you haven...
Star photographs made at the Harvard astronomy station in South Africa reveal an unusual distribution of Cepheid variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, neighbor star system of the Milky Way. There is a "peculiar concentration" of the larger, longer-period Cepheid variable stars in regions where the star population is dense, Shapley said. Cepheids fluctuate in brightness in periods ranging from a few hours to about fifty days; their mass is four to five times that...
Lawrence G. Ebb '39 and William P. Bundy, Yale '39, were announced yesterday as coaches for the teams and as critic judges for the debates. Ebb served as president of the Debating Council last year and during his term of office conceived and organized the present system of inter-House debating...
Speaking yesterday afternoon at the Waldorf-Astoria before the first session of the Ninth Annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems, President Conant declared, "The perpetual disintegration of hard and fast class lines would seem to me the first aim of an educational system in a country which believes in the desirability of a truly classless society...
...educators accept the ideal of a free and classless society on the American pattern as the premise for our actions, our concern must be at every point in the educational system to provide true democracy of opportunity, to have all careers open to the talented," Conant said...