Word: professors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more excitement is called for. Hysteria over the "Red" issue is everywhere. At Peekskill over a hundred people were injured in stone throwing after a concert. Local vigilantes have suggested running a Harvard professor out of town. Page one of the same CRIMSON says that the Navy wants to know, among other things, what sort of social affairs its ROTC men attend. The jury and the judge in the Hiss case were threatened after the trial. And now leaders of the Communist Party are jailed for "teaching, advocating, and encouraging." This hasn't been a crime in the many other...
John Ciardi, assistant professor of English, will be among speakers who will express their opinions on racial equality, religious liberty, and political freedom in America at a "Civil Rights" meeting in the auditorium of the Longfollow School tonight...
...past two years B. F. Skinner, professor of psychology, has been running a slot machine for pigeons in the Psychological Laboratories under Memorial Hall...
According to Professor Skinner, the most interesting development in his tests from a scientific point of view is the "extinction curve" which registers the petering-off of pecks...
...Professor Skinner gets his birds, or "organisms" as he calls them, from a local pigeon-breeding farm. He admits pigeons are "notoriously dumb creatures," but admires their steadiness of intellect, or lack of it. The farm gives him surplus white homing-pigeons. They are too easy prey for hawks, but make excellent material for the battle of the button...