Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Not surprisingly, Don Herbert failed when he tried to sell his new series to commercial television. A few ad agen cies and sponsors showed some interest, but they could not entice an appropriate time slot from the big networks. "All those people said they liked it and were sure their...
Yet to fulfill the requirements set by the Surgeon General, the entire executive board of Harvard's Committee on Research Responsibility at the William James Center for the Behavioral Sciences would have to convene to review every research request of every graduate student receiving NIH funds. The executive board would...
...Surgeon General asks that the explicit consent of the subject be given in all human experiments. He perhaps does not realize that this would invalidate a number of psychological tests. If an experimenter asks a subject for permission to deceive his sense of perception, the subject will go into the experiment looking for the trick. This obviously distorts his normal reactions and makes his observations worthless. Explicit consent is essential only for potentially dangerous experiments...
Munro deployed his teams in a 5-3-2 all of his previous 18 years at Harvard, but abandoned it with hesitation this fall to experiment with the three-back defense which is most common in the college ranks today.
A short preseason and an unsettled personnel situation have handicapped Munro's efforts to install the new style of play, and Wednesday's uninspired loss at Williams convinced the Crimson coach to halt the experiment.