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Advocating the establishment of a practical utopia, Burrhus F. Skinner, Edgar pierce Professor of Psychology, stated yesterday, "This mid-twentieth century calls for experiments to determine whether people can live together peacefully and if so under what conditions...
Pigeons Playing Pingpong. The new boom in programed learning goes back to 1954 and takes as its father Harvard's eminent Behavioral Psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner. By "conditioning" experiments. Skinner had produced such laboratory oddities as pigeons playing pingpong. Pigeons are hardly bright, but Skinner made them smart by one-step-at-a-time teaching, immediately "reinforcing" each correct response with a grain of corn. Soon the pigeons blithely pecked a ball back and forth across a small table...
...following week, on Nov. 19, Edward M. Purcell, Donner Professor of Science, plans to discuss "The Scientist as Engineer," at Quincy House. In the Dec. 3 lecture, Burrhus F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, will speak on "The Control of Human Behavior...
...moins la disgrace d'Agrippine que la mort de Britannicus." C'est aussi l'histoire de la naissance du monstre Neron dont on ne connait pas la nature quand le rideau se leve. Tandis que Neron decouvre son genie, la tragedie est rendue sensible par le conflit des gouverneurs, Burrhus, soldat honnete si maladroit, et Narcisse, anguille glissante...
...tension si forte des lignes alexandrins eux-memes. Mais dans le role de Narcisse, Raymond Gerome a ete merveilleux, une belle anguille, avec un sens si exact de la modulation scenique. Il faut signaler aussi Marcelle Ranson si accomplie dans le role d'Albine, et Claude Martin (Burrhus), qui d'une maniere brusque mais touchante prononce le jugement definitif sur Neron: "Ses yeux indifferents ont deja la constance/D'un tyran dans le crime endurci des l'enfance...