Word: mcgills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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...
Competing against eight other teams, the varsity skiers took fourth place at the McGill Winter Carnival this weekend with 541 points...
Skiing without their number one man, Harry Gardner, the skiers lost by a narrow 15 point margin. McGill, the host, finished first with 556 points, followed by Laval of Quebec, 552, and the Dartmouth B team...
...team were at full strength, Coach Graham Taylor would rate it as a possible top team in today's McGill Carnival at San Sanveur, Quebec. But, because of four key injuries, the team has little hope of topping the field, which is led by favored McGill, the host team...