Word: wald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dying. "Much depends," says the University of California's Dr. Alexander Simon, "on the attitude of the family and the patient's own attitude. There are some whom I would not tell about imminent death because they would panic." Another U. of C. psychiatrist, Dr. Robert D. Wald, believes that the opposite situation is more common: "The assumption is that people don't want to die. From my experience, I believe that-more often than is generally realized-people reach a point where they are willing to die." To Psychologist Herman Feifel of the University of Southern...
...Committee's recognition that the only thing which insures an excellent Gen Ed program is excellent Gen Ed courses and the only thing which insures excellent courses is excellent teachers. When all is said, there is really no doubt that in the enthusiasm of men like George Wald and Sam Beer is all that is good with Gen Ed today...
...George Wald described the aim of General Education in science very simply: "To show you that you live in a lawful universe." The unity and integrity of scientific law can be seen in any field that accepts the singularity of scientific truth and the vdity of scientific explanation. There no reason that rigorous courses in experimental social psychology or economics should not meet this standard in the future...
...contributors include Paul H. Buck, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor; Franklin L. Ford, Dean of the Faculty; David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Gerald Helton, professor of Physics; George Wald, professor of Biology; and Oscar Handlin, professor of History. They discuss exhaustively every aspect of the examination system...
Peter Albersheim, assistant professor of Biology and one of the four lecturers in Nat Sci 5 this year, attributed the comparatively small demand for the course to the absence of George Wald, and also to the popularity...