Further Mention

In the belief that some appreciation of historical development is essential to teaching Physics, that the history of science is a common interest of persons in many diverse specialties, and that a general student is less interested in technical details than in personalities and social roles, 35 scholars from the United States, Israel, Switzerland, Japan, Italy, Germany, Iran, Brazil, England, Belgium, and Hungary met for five days in 1970 at MIT to read papers and hear discussions. Their findings are incorporated in a book entitled History in the Teaching ofPhysics: Proceedings of the InternationalWorking Seminar on the Role of the Historyof Physics in Physics Education, published by the University Press of New England, located in Hanover. Allen L. King, Professor of Physics, Dartmouth College, and Curator of Historical Scientific Instruments, who served as chairman of the organizing committee, is co-editor with Stephen G. Brush, Associate Professor of History and Research Associate Professor in the Institute for Fluid Dynamic and Applied Mathematics at the University of Maryland. A member of the organizing committee, Sanford C. Brown '35, Professor of Physics and Dean of the Graduate School at MIT, read a paper on "Organization of International Efforts in Using History of Physics in Physics Teaching."

Another new volume by the University Press of New England is The Meaning ofMannerism edited by two members of the Dartmouth College faculty, Franklin W. Robinson, Assistant Professor of Art, and Stephen G. Nichols Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures. Based on meetings of the New England Renaissance Society at Dartmouth College in 1970, it offers six essays dealing with problems of defining the mannerist style in 16th century art and society. Some essayists explored a single aspect of music, poetry, painting, or graphics, and others with a more generalized approach concerned themselves with the concept of mannerism as a whole. With an introduction by Professor Robinson, the volume includes 60 illustrations closely integrated with the text. Ray Nash, Professor of Art Emeritus, Dartmouth College, contributes an illustrated essay, "The Making of a Renaissance Book." Other participating scholars are James V. Mirollo (Columbia University), Claude V. Palisca and Thomas M. Greene (Yale University), Samuel Y. Edgerton (Boston University), and Henri Zerner (Brown University).

"All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them any time. ... But there's no hurry... You need only open your awareness at the pace you find safe and comfortable. If LSD is too fast, go slower. This is home. We all belong to the universe." This is a quotation from TheLazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment by Thaddeus Golas, a pocket-sized paperback of 150 pages, published by J. E. Casey '63, 1641 California Street, San Francisco. Answering the question "Who are we?" Chapter One states: "We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. The universe is made of one kind of entity: each is alive, each determines the course of his own existence." The author then assures a reader that those two introductory sentences are all he needs to know to understand the book or to write his own. The final sentence makes this affirmation: "Know that the smallest kindness is a facet in the infinite jewel of enlightenment."

Granville Frank Knight '26, M.D., President of the Price-Pottenger Foundation, Santa Monica, Calif., has written a foreword to the Heritage Edition of Nutrition andPhysical Degeneration: A Comparison ofPrimitive and Modern Diets and TheirEffects by Weston A. Price. This edition contains a supplement of 96 pages and 20 illustrations. Dr. Knight describes the book as a classic summation of the observations made by an imaginative and indefatigable investigator over a span of 40 years with original laboratory research and a first-hand survey of 14 primitive tribes in their native habitats. "This profusely illustrated book contrasts their vibrant health and almost complete freedom from dental caries and other ills—while consuming only native nutrients—with the degeneration which invariably ensued once they rejected tribal wisdom and adapted our foods of commerce."

Here is still another book by that scholarly and indefatigable lawyer, Wilton S. Sogg '56, a partner in the Cleveland firm of Ginsberg, Guren & Merritt, who is also Adjunct Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University. Smith's Review, Legal GemsSeries, Administrative Law for Law Schooland Bar Examinations, published by West Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minn., reflects the growing body of law and the growing interest in Administrative Law. Mr. Sogg and his co-authors, Myron G. Hill Jr. and Howard M. Rossen, have attempted to organize and put into perspective the basic material for the course in Administrative Law as it is taught in law schools today and also to structure the material so as to make it useful for both students and practitioners.

A Fulbright Research Scholar connected with the United States Educational Foundation in Norway, David L. Larson '52 is author of "Marshall-planen og Norge" in Internasjonal Politikk Nr. 2, Apr./Juno 1972. Written in Norwegian, the article outlines the Marshall Plan and the participation of Norway in it seen as an almost irrevocable vote to join with the West whereby it contributed towards the division of Europe and also towards Norway's first step towards European integration.

Publishers Weekly: "... the book that revises history." Saturday Review: "... very likely the most provocative book about Japan since the end of the Second World War." The New York Times: "American can learn not only what they don't know but also what they know that isn't so." Associated Press: "A blockbuster of a book." If your pocketbook forbade you to buy the hard-back of Japan's Imperial Conspiracy originally published by William Morrow & Company, Inc., it may now give you permission. Yours for the keeping in the new paperbound edition published by Pocket Books, New York, for $2.25. You are not likely to get so much reading matter elsewhere for so little money: 1362 pages with 32 pages of photographs. What Newsweek calls "a massive thriller" was written by the Dartmouth man who reads and speaks Japanese and spent seven years doing research and writing the book, David Bergamini '49. He is now under contract to write three new books: a psychiatric work, a history of astronomy, and a novel about the Venus Development Program. During the winter semester, January-March 1973, at the University of California at Irvine he will teach a course in creative writing and another in literature. Japan's Imperial Conspiracy asks and answers the question: Was Hirohito an imperial puppet or an imperial villain?