Word: wald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Wald, professor of Biology, hailed the new program as "a recognition that modern biology has reached a molecular level and demands a basic training in physics, mathematics, and chemistry in addition to biology." He explained that the urgent need to make room for these basic science courses "makes it necessary for us to restrict considerably the biology requirements...
Onetime Movie Tycoon Joe Kennedy dined in Hollywood with Actor Tony Curtis and conferred with Producer Jerry Wald on the filming possibilities of a book that interested him. Result: Wald has been meeting with Bobby Kennedy and other veterans of the Senate labor racketeering committee staff to work out the details of the" movie version of Bobby's own story of the Teamster investigations, The Enemy Within...
Harvard professors who signed the petition were Herschel C. Baker, J. N. Douglas Bush, Herbert Dieckmann, Wilbur M. Frohock, Albert J. Guerard, Howard Mumford Jones, Harry T. Levin, John M. Gaus, Oscar Handlin, David F. Cavers, Caleb Foote, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Kenneth V. Thimann, George Wald, Roderick Firth, John T. Edsall, Gordon W. Allport, Talcott Parsons, and Cedric H. Whitman...
...commenting on rumors that a large group of students would be dropped from the course at the beginning of the Spring Term. Wald stated that "nothing could be further from the truth." He noted that the grade average for the Fall Term was approximately at the C level and that the curve did not show any unusual distribution...
...Wald added that he was "watching the course every minute" for sign of student dissatisfaction, and that he had found none. He noted that a questionnaire asking students for suggestions for changing the course had reassured him that he was "doing the right thing...