Word: skinnerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mike Buckley of Northeastern and Crimson trackmen Andy Campbell and Dirk Skinner crossed the line bunched together at 27.21 and 27.25 for Campbell and Skinner to round out the top six finishers...
...Keefe was what really won it for us," coach Bill McCurdy said after the race. "He burst past like a big bird after a mile and kept going. Skinner did well also. You know, he shouldn't be that good, but no one's told him that. He's had his heart in it a long time and it's paying...
Until he suffered a severely bruised Achilles tendon in the Oxford-Cambridge meet last spring, Bill Durette was expected to be another strong hope for the harriers. His loss has been somewhat offset, though, by the fine showing of Dirk Skinner, a "complete surprise" in McCurdy's words, who ran exceptionally well in camp...
...funded by the Ford Foundation and includes a famous visitor, and I believe all the Houses have them or something like them. In the course of the year I missed any number of Ford Dinners at Kirkland House. Among the famous people I did not see were B.F. Skinner and Leonard Bernstein. For the last dinner of the year the guest was to be I.A. Richards, a famous literary critic, none of whose books I had ever read or knew anything about. Despite my ignorance, it seemed to me it was about time I went to a Ford Dinner...
...Nowhere in Behaviorist B.F. Skinner's voluminous writings does he give evidence of an inability to effectively discriminate between man and rat. However, Skinner and his distinguished students have amassed data that strongly suggest that many of the same principles that parsimoniously explain and govern the behavior of certain animal species, under carefully specified conditions, are also true of human behavior. And for devoting himself to such demanding, yet valuable objectives, he should be scorned? For shame...