Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry D. & Jonathan M. Parmenler:--to Fred Benyamin '41, of Columbia, South Carolina; Maurice S. Cohen '41, of Winthrop. Sanford L. Gray '41, Cleveland, Lester J. Bonig '41, of New York; Albert C. Howell '41, of Sandy Hook, New Jersey; George Minkin '41, of New Bedford; Henry D. Oyen '41, of New York; and Edward L. Rogers '41, of Suffield, Connecticut...
...Cornell, Syracuse and Tech race here; on May 21 occurs the Adams Cup event with Navy and Penn at Annapolis. Harvard faces Columbia at New York on May 28 before the Yale race on June...
...republic soon after the War-when it was created out of detached fragments of neighboring monarchies-its school system was not made over until a decade later. The agent of that change was a clean-shaven, energetic, gesticulating educator. Dr. Vaclav Príhoda, 45, who studied at Columbia's Teachers College and the University of Chicago, the two great springs of modern educational ideas in the U. S. He returned to Czechoslovakia with a burning zeal for the educational theories of Philosopher John Dewey...
Music 6 Meals, "This is a report," declared Dr. Gregory S. Razran of Columbia University, "of an extensive experiment to change human preferences for music, paintings, and photographs of young college girls, by a differential conditioning technique." His technique consisted of presenting neutral or distasteful items during a free lunch, items which were already preferred before or after the lunch. "The results, show the differential conditioning to be remarkably effective. Even one lunch was sufficient to produce considerable and reliable changes in the group tastes. ... It appears that the preferential value of one or another form of music...
Milestone of Science No. 1, however, was contributed by Columbia University's Dr. Gregory S. Razran, reporting results of a year's experiment at a meeting of the American Psychological Association in Manhattan. Subject: the effects of free lunch on various forms of artistic appreciation (see p. 54). Psychologist Razran's conclusions indicated that with enough free lunch "you can practically make an individual like anything." He admitted that it took one subject five lunches before she liked the piano music of Modernist Aaron Copland. "But she did come to like it, and after she did, gave...