Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that students really study. The atmosphere is almost eerily quiet (there are no bells). Talk in the seminars is orderly and interesting. At one seminar, 15 sophomores taking a course got down to their discussion well before a teacher even arrived in the room. In a science resource lab, two students seated themselves before a teaching machine. Each had earphones on his head and was tuned in on a tape prepared by a biology teacher on chromosomes. The material they were hearing supplemented their required studies. As they listened, slides were flashed before them on a screen...
...sees. A native New Yorker, Bruner got into psychology by a fluke: Duke University expelled him for cutting compulsory chapel, relented only when his psychology professor (newly arrived from Harvard) pleaded that he was too bright to fire. Bruner spent the rest of his chapel periods in the lab studying intelligence in rats, went on to a Ph.D. at Harvard, wound up as a psychological warfare expert on Eisenhower's staff in Europe...
Hopefully, the photographs were fed into "Franckenstein," a machine developed by Lab Mechanic Jack Franck, which automatically measured the curvature, angle and length of the star's lines and recorded the data on a punched card. Then Professor Arthur H. Rosenfeld fed the cards into a digital computer set up to search for stars that suggested the presence of an invisible intermediate particle. Only 93 of the 2,500 stars showed the computer what it was looking for. Carefully reexamined, the stars proved that when an antiproton hits a proton, it sometimes creates five mesons-two positive pions...
Argentines admire "college spirit" and practical lab work in U.S. schools; their own universities have no campus life and few professors who answer questions. Middle Easterners thirst for the technical training that their own classical universities lack, and praise the pragmatic way of American life because it "refuses to accept the status...
Affectionately dubbed "Oyaji'' ("Pop") by his employees, Honda spends more time in the research lab than he does at his desk, tests most of the new models* himself at the company's Yamato City testing grounds. He sees no limit to the potential sales of his precision-built machines. "If you produce a good thing, it will be wanted," he says. "And it will be wanted by people in any country...