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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When students take the University-required swimming test, the results are recorded on a permanent record card. Then if the student wishes to use the boating facilities and has no boating restriction, his bursar's card is also stamped, to be presented by the student to the attendant at Weld boathouse...
Among the 173 Republicans, who represented a 43 per cent majority of the votes polled, 79 per cent favored Nixon to 12 per cent for Rockefeller. Of the 29 per cent who classified themselves Democrats, 65 per cent chose Senator John Kennedy, with 20 per cent for Nixon. Nixon also received 47 per cent of the first place choices among the 112 Independents polled...
...Researchers will also try to ascertain the effect of volunteers upon the hospital as a whole. Some students will work with entire wards, trying to cheer patients and help them regain self-esteem. A sociologist has started to study selected wards, and his investigation will be repeated after the volunteers complete their duties...
...imposition of such restraints on any occasion. Rather, what is bad is the existence of a belief among common men that intellectuals cannot be trusted as citizens. The oaths and affidavits serve, it seems, as reprimands. And to those who judge the reprimands wrongly directed they have also seemed insults, as the language of the protests ("offensive," "odious") indicates...
Hypnosis can motivate subjects to perform extraordinary feats of endurance and strength, but appropriate motivation in the wake state, if properly applied, can also increase the physical capacity of the subject. In an experiment designed to test the effect of hypnosis versus that of motivation on the physical capacity, Dr. Orne had hypnotized subjects hold a kilogram weight at arm's length. They were told that their arm was resting on a table (hallucinated) and that they could feel no discomfort in it. They were asked to hold the weight as long as possible without dropping it or lowering their...