Word: wald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last night, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and Mathew S. Meselson, chairman of the Biochemistry Department, debated the risks and merits of the proposed containment laboratory for recombinant DNA research before 500 people at the Cambridge Unitarian Church...
...Wald said today's scientists have the ability to cross wide natural boundaries to merge disparate organisms overnight...
...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, likes to tell a story about the time he asked a Radcliffe freshman why she was so intent on being pre-med. Although she wasn't really sure, when he pressed her, she finally answered, "We want to do something to help people--that's lucrative." When Wald, a leftwing activist himself, tells the story now, he adds a rather cynical final note: "And between people and lucrative, make sure you put a good long dash...
...Wald says he finds it hard to believe that student protest was so single-minded as to be centered only on the war. Five years ago, he says, "students were telling us, 'look, we came here to be educated, not to get grades.' They were looking for experiments not only in lifestyles, but in education...
...McGovern-Nixon election. As it became more and more obvious that McGovern could not win the presidency, students turned away from politics and began to worry about careers. "They left for the summer talking about social change and came back in the fall talking about medical school," Wald says. Although one theory speculates that Harvard stopped admitting radicals, Jewett denies that admissions criteria changed at all; the change, he says, came in the applicant pool, as high school students began reflecting their parents' fears about the unemployment facing college graduates...