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Harvard would therefore do well to require such an examination as surely as it does the swimming test. Its practicability is shown by the Bible. Shakespeare examinations in English and History and Literature: one wouldn't have to study for them if he were lucky enough to know the elementary material involved. This test, no more than the admirable General Education courses, would not settle forever our search for "a common core of knowledge"; but it would at least help students avoid the temptation of meekly submitting their destinies to whoever happens at a given moment to be making...
Professor Leet, one of the nation's leading seismologists, was among the scientists who took part in the Los Alamos atom bomb test two years ago. As a specialist in the study of vibrations, Leet has recorded the effects of earthquakes and blasts on his underground machines. He is the author of a forthcoming book on "Causes of Catastrophes...
Leonard Bernstein, brilliant, brash young (28) man of U.S. music, triumphed in a ticklish test. In Manhattan he led Dr. Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra through a short but arduous young man's program: Symphony No. 7 in C Major (which Schubert wrote at 31), Le Sacre du Printemps, which Stravinsky wrote at 30. It was the first time that 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky had ever let a guest conduct his Boston Orchestra for a whole concert in New York. Carnegie Hall was so packed that even Pianist Jose Iturbi had to stand...
Before the Connie went into commercial service, said he, it had been put through 4,670 hours, or 1,401,000 miles, of test flying-without a single injury. The fire which got the Connie grounded last summer was no fault of the engine's induction system, as had been suspected, but was started by a short-circuited electric fitting. When this fitting was redesigned and a few other slight modifications made, the Connie, "already a fine airplane, became undoubtedly the most advanced airplane of its class . . . with respect to safety." The subsequent crash of a T.W.A. Constellation...
...test of a rat's mentality is to put him in an intricate maze half full of water, observe how quickly he finds his way out. After 50 days, the wakeful rats were dumped in such a maze. They swam feverishly, caught on to the maze, got out even faster than normal rats...