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...Russin, when a czar was a czar and a serf a serf, History 155b starts with mystic Alexander 1 and continues until the debacle of 1917 marked the end of all good things. The errant anglonmle may emerge from the Stuart era to listen to Professor Brower disuss in Sever 31, eighteenth century poetry, from Dryden to Wordsworth...
Members of all colleges in the Boston area have been invited to attend the afternoon career conferences, which will be held in Sever A starting Monday, Feb., 9 and will continue once per week until March 18. The Conference on Foreign Commerce, originally scheduled for this Thursday afternoon, will he held on Thursday...
Standing lonely by Widener, Bronson will watch his fortunate friends (mostly A-Q-42 types) troop into Emerson, Sever, and Building T-4 (built on the site formerly occupied by Memorial Church). They will hear the lecturettes; they will sit in on the think sessions and RH-29-X meetings; they will be happy in their own inner-directed, typical way. Bronson will take the 11:48 home, sad but wise, and enroll in some third-rate community junior college...
...ceilinged, fluorescent-lit basement room in Sever Hall stands a row of machines which may someday supply such efficiency. They are updated models, constructed by Professor Skinner, of the teaching machines devised in the '20's by the inventor Sidney L. Pressey. The teaching machines facilitate automatic testing of information and intelligence...
Whether or not the teaching machines, in a generation or so, will become a major weapon in winning the battle for western technological supremacy; whether or not they will someday help equalize the supply of teachers with the demand; certainly that row of ten silent machines in Sever Hall is a harbinger of a nervous and not too brave new world.Pictures courteous of Psychological LaboratoriesThe Self-Instruction Room in Sever Hall. There are ten booths holding the teaching machines, some outfitted with indexing phonographs...