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Besides the gold pants, Yale has several other new items which may prove to be equally spectacular. One of them is Dennis (The Menace) McGill, a very fast and shifty halfback. He retired in the second quarter with a charley-horse after getting Yale off to a 7-0 lead, or the Yale total might well have been higher. Given a couple of key downfield blocks, McGill, a sophomore, can be a scoring threat from anywhere on the field...

Author: By Peter B. Taus, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/13/1954 | See Source »

...Yale line is big and strong, headed by an enormous sophomore guard, John Osweichik, and this is where the visitors held the edge over Lou Little's hardy little band today. Yale sprung McGill loose for its first score and simply ground out its second by bits and chunks through the Lion tackles late in the game...

Author: By Peter B. Taus, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/13/1954 | See Source »

Professor McGill is a separate case, as he admitted before the board that he lied to a New York legislative committee about Communist Party membership thirteen years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Room to Repent | 10/8/1954 | See Source »

...Spanish proverb does not work out if doing nothing is carried too far. In a small attic office at McGill University in Montreal, Psychologist Woodburn Heron pays students $20 a day to lie on a soft bed in a soundproofed, air-conditioned cubicle. The students' eyes are covered by translucent goggles so that they see only a foggy glow. On their hands they wear cardboard gauntlets over thick gloves to deaden their sense of touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight of the Brain | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...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 to do mental arithmetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight of the Brain | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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