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AN important event of the year for the world of science is the three-day Convocation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., which opened on March 31. The general theme of the Convocaram is "The Social Implications of Scientific Progress at the Mid-Century Point", and two opening speeches were delivered by Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Harry S. Truman. Addresses given by men from many walks of life and from various parts of the world fall under the following six main divisions: "The Problem of World Production''; "The Problem of the Underdeveloped Area" ; "Science, Materialism and the Human Spirit" ; "The Role of the Individual in a World of Institutions" ; "Specialization in Twentieth Century Education" ; "The State, Industry and the University". Among the British speakers are Sir Henry Tizard, chairman of the Defence Research Policy Committee of the Ministry of Defence; Lord Hailey; and Sir Richard Livingstone, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Speakers from other countries include Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and Prime Minister of Mysore State ; M. Pierre Ryckmans, Belgian repre sentative on the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations ; Mr. Carlos Contreras, president of the National Planning Association of Mexico ; and Mr. Oswaldo Aranha, formerly Brazilian Ambassador to the United States. At the end of the Convocation, the ceremony of inauguration of Dr. James Rhyne Killian, jun., as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, takes place, and one of the addresses of welcome to Dr. Killian is by Mr. David A. Shepard, honorary secretary in London of the Institute, and chairman of the Anglo-American Oil Co.
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Social Implications of Scientific Progress. Nature 163, 520 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163520b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163520b0