Education: Rut Mender

U.S. scientists, who seldom used to worry much about such things, have begun to wonder whether they have the social vision to see beyond their warheads. This week Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the nation's top scientific school, welcomed a man who might do something about that feeling. For the first time in its 81 years, M.I.T. picked as dean of stu dents not a scientist but a minister.

Dr. Everett Moore Baker, pink-faced and prematurely white-haired at 45, has been minister of Cleveland's First Unitarian Church (with the denomination's third largest membership) since 1942. Really a New Englander, he was born in...

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