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Physics concentrators at the University of Moscow outnumber their Harvard counterparts ten to one, according to John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy...
Other members of the returning Harvard group were Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Albert B. Lord '34, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature; Richard E. Pipes, associate professor of History; and John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy...
...Vleck, who visited scientific laboratories, was impressed by "the enormous number of able and hard-working people." Three thousand are enrolled in the five year physics course at the University of Moscow. Both Leontief and Lord feel that the Russian educators know more about us than we do about them...
Minor obstacles like graduate school admission and Selective Service classrank could almost certainly be overcome, but scientists' opposition would present a stronger check. John H. Van Vleck, Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, contends that courses are necessary in the sciences; saying that the European emphasis on reading and tutorial applies reasonably only to the Humanities and Social Sciences. "You can browse around in literature," he says, "more easily than in scientific disciplines and the laboratories...
...will succeed John H. Van Vleck, who plans to resume his research in mathematical physics. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor or Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, expects to prepare an enlarged edition of his "Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities...