Word: experimentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For this reason, yesterday's announcement that Lamont will not retain the Sunday and late week-day hours comes as an alarming surprise. Library officials justified the decision by explaining that not enough students used the library during last spring's experiment to warrant the added expense. They pointed out...
Bed of Boredom. The McGill experiment tries to measure the malfunctioning. The students generally sleep during their first few hours on the soft bed. Awake, they grow more and more restless. They squirm, whistle, sing, talk to themselves. They welcome any interruption, as when they are asked over an intercom...
Dr. Heron is doing a specific and limited experiment, and he does not intend to speculate. But it has occurred to many observers that his technique of confusing and dimming the brain by starving it of sensation might be used, with proper modification, for darker purposes. It might explain the...
SWITZERLAND may become the first nation to return to a partial gold standard. With more gold than is needed to back their currency 100%, the prosperous Swiss will experiment by minting gold francs in 25 fr. ($5.83) and 50 fr. ($11.66) denominations, will start off by issuing 50 to 100...
The Advanced Standing Program, of which this experiment in by-passing elementary courses is the first move, goes into full swing in the fall of 1955. It provides for the early admission of eleventh grade students, course reduction, and sophomore standing directly from high school with immediate entrance into the...