Word: lindsley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's first individual intercollegiate champion. The next year, Harvard dethroned the Elis while the Crimson's J.F. Curtis was medalist. The third year the three schools met Reid finished first, as each college had then had a national champion. Percy Pyne Jr. won for Princeton in 1900, H. Lindsley took the title for Harvard in 1901, and Yale's Charles Hitchcock...
...sports at Harvard. Radcliffe basketball--only two upperclasswomen. Senior Sue Williams and junior captain Katherine Fulton; swimming--a 21 women team of which only two were upperclasswomen, senior captain Jane Hendricks and junior Sue Schwartz; field hockey--only three upper class members, senior captain Ann Dupuis, senior Karen Lindsley and junior captain-elect Lucy Wood, squash three of the first seven squashers were freshwomen...
...stick approach, which rewards desired habits and punishes unwanted ones. Male homosexuals, for example, may be given electric shocks when they look at pictures of nude men and granted relief from the shocks when they view female figures (see cut). "What we are doing," explains Reinforcement Therapist Ogden Lindsley of the University of Kansas, "is very similar to what progressive businesses do. We constantly monitor performance. But instead of improving sales, we try to improve behavior." Such a pragmatic approach is seen as one of the major advantages of behavior therapy by its supporters. Instead of searching for the elusive...