Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have kept some equipment in the basement of Lawrence Hall--at that time the center of the Lawrence Scientific School. He also maintained a laboratory in the Museum of Comparative Anatomy, where he taught Natural History 3, a course in comparative anatomy and physiology. As one of his students, G. Stanley Hall, Ph.D. '78, recalled, "In a tiny room under the stairway of Agassiz Museum he had a metronome, a device for whirling a frog, a horopter chart, and one or two bits of apparatus...
Today, 80 years after their founding by James, the Psychological Laboratories continue their research into general experimental psychology under the directorship of Stevens, who took over in 1949 from the former director, Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psycology...
...machine's forecasts do not pinpoint ground-level weather for any locality. They concern the behavior of the high-altitude waves, which have broad control over local ground weather. At present, says Dr. G. R. Cressman, head of the unit, the machine makes fine forecasts of upper-air weather for high-flying aircraft. For ground-level weather, it is not yet very good...
Incoming N.A.M. President Ernest G. (for Goodnough) Swigert of Portland, Ore, also was troubled by the tax system : "We must make a complete change in our whole theory of taxation. The tax system should be designed for raising revenue and not for reforming society." Swigert warned against adding to inflation by overstimulating production, cited "the ridiculous 1955 production race" of auto manufacturers...
...affirmative Kirkland debaters would give no definition of terms, since they were "self-evident," M. Robert Lifson '57 claimed. Debating with him was G. Brian Wilhelm '57, while Sheila Chandler '58 and Brenda Radcliffe '59 upheld the negative...