Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychologists did not attempt to cure the Faculty, however, and none of the Clinic's patients hit the headlines with axe murders. In fact, the new project's combination of therapy, teaching, and research turned out to be a very good one. The students made willing and interested guinea pigs, and the patients--sent to the Clinic by other agencies; the Clinic takes none directly--got the benefit of the staff's newest researches. The Clinic has built up a considerable reputation for its work, which ranged from research in hypnotism to experiments in the psychology of jokes. Since...
Besides its official visitors, the Clinic also has unofficial ones. One was a little old lady who came in and demanded a Certificate of Good Conduct. She explained that the Devil kept accusing her of being sinful, that she wasn't, and that she wanted something she could show him to prove it. The Clinic obligingly manufactured a certificate. It evidently satisfied the Devil, because the little old lady hasn't been back since...
...high cost of learning. It was tried out last year at the University of Buffalo with some success, and has been instituted in 17 other areas all over the country. What with the new tuition hike and the financial pressures of living under the G.I. bill, any good plan for saving deserves a fair tryout...
Perhaps the most important reason for the current failure of the plan is the limited range of participating stores in the area of the Square. The success of the Purchase Card depends upon its local showing; the present nine member stores around the Square form a good nucleus, but the variety of goods, services, and price levels they cover is not wide enough to make the plan sell. In the minds of many students, the present Purchase Card System is merely an ineffective duplication of the Coop...
...System, however, is not dead yet. It simply hasn't had a chance. Given effective publicity and a mammoth card-selling campaign next fall, together with the recruiting of many more local stores, there is a good possibility that the Purchase Card System will revive and bloom. Otherwise, it will expire, . . . and soon...