Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward M. Rowe '27, Director of Debating, said that "the quality of speaking was exceptionally fine." The original plan of the trials was to reduce the number of contestants to 10, but it was found advisable to retain 16 of the group of 22 contestants...
...Bureau has been making a scientific study of traffic problems, and has been successful up to 90 percent in scientifically training drivers. President Seymour of Yale said that the new course is to study methods of stemming the number of lives lost yearly in accidents, which have amounted to 40,000 lives a year...
...will not be treated like boys on an outing. If anyone doubts this fact, let them look at the record of the aftermath of the May third riot last year. Two students had their connection with the University severed, one had his degree held up a half year, a number were placed on probation until the end of the year, and a sizeable group were on disciplinary pro until this mid-years. The ones punished were not necessarily the most guilty. They were the ones caught. The University treats riots seriously, and the sooner the undergraduates learn this the better...
...group compared with other scientists-they were cheerful, convivial, well-dressed, well-mannered, interested in one another, argumentative, mildly frustrated. Psychology is a science notably torn by internal dissension, a state of affairs which is only partly due to the fact that it harbors a relatively large number of women. It is the human mind in the act of investigating itself-a tricky business, to which the rigorous methods of other sciences are frequently not applicable. It draws generalizations from large numbers of individuals, and so the problem of statistical evaluation itself creates disagreement...
...Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin rolled into one-invented a famous test in which subjects are asked to "guess." one by one, the cards of a special deck whose faces they are not permitted to see. He submits that the far higher than expected number of correct guesses points plausibly to the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance...