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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skinner Sees Need to Develop Ideal Community by Experiment | 11/18/1961 | See Source »

Married. Norman Percevel Rockwell, 67, the Edgar Guest of U.S. painting, a master of painstakingly detailed nostalgia whose Saturday Evening Post covers (314 in 45 years) have faithfully reflected America's own sentimentally simple image of itself; and Mary L. Punderson, 65, retired English teacher; he for the third time, she for the first; in Stockbridge, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 3, 1961 | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

Above all, Southern Rhodesia's government is showing signs of bending before the suasion of a largely antiracist world. Rising at the annual conference of his powerful United Federal Party, Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead announced that if his party wins the election next year, his government will ban racial discrimination in most areas of life, a shift that would change the face of the nation. The local black African nationalists are unimpressed, insist on the grant of immediate universal suffrage, which Whitehead has not promised. Said one of their leaders: "We are not interested in the elimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Rhodesia: How Far We've Come | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...Edgar Rosenberg, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition and leader of this course, reacts to the situation by increasing office hours to accommodate more students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Holds No Uniform Policy On Ratio of Graders to Students | 10/25/1961 | See Source »

Programmed instruction is a new method of teaching which features careful organization of the subject matter and active participation by the student. One of its first and foremost advocates was B. F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, who has been using its techniques in Natural Sciences 114 since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Programmed Teaching Is | 10/5/1961 | See Source »

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