Word: tuve
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the subject generally popular offered some observations last week about what is wrong. The three: Dr. James R. Killian Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology president and special assistant to the President for science and technology; Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover. father of the atomic submarine; and Dr. Merle Antony Tuve, director of the department of terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
Said Physicist Tuve (rhymes with prove), concerned over the possibility of well-meaning overemphasis of science: "I believe that science must firmly be included among the liberalizing humanities in any honest assessment of modern thought." He proposed that teachers get pay raises for the quality of their teaching, "not only for longevity and for more degrees from schools of education...
Most striking notions of the evening: 1) Tuve's suggestion that love of learning be rekindled among high school teachers by giving them time off for their own scholarship, and 2) Rickover's observation -prompted by a remark on the "union card" restrictions for teacher .certification fossilized into law by pressure from the teachers' colleges: "I hope this audience knows that neither Dr. Killian nor Dr. Tuve could qualify for a permanent teaching job in the high schools of this city...
...sure, Professor Rollins' retirement is a major loss for the Department as well as for the University and the profession, but otherwise the situation is reasonably well in hand. We have been fortunate in securing the services of four distinguished persons as visiting lecturers: Miss Rosemond Tuve of Connecticut College, Mr. Northrup Frye of Toronto, Mr. F. W. Dupee of Columbia, and Mr. Armour Craig of Amherst. They will help repair the deficiencies occasioned by the sabbatical leaves of Professors Brower and Guerard; and as for Professors Levin and Bate and myself, we shall all teach here for half...