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...faculty say the case method forces research into the kinds of practical problems their school wants to teach. "The case method is a method of research--Bok's report is somewhat like telling a chemist not to do any work in a laboratory, just to think up ideas," Wickham Skinner, Robinson Professor of Business Administration, says. "The business world is our laboratory...
Willard conceived her novel idea while doing postdoctoral work under famed Behaviorist B.F. Skinner, who has managed such unlikely feats of animal training as teaching pigeons to play Ping Pong. Encouraged by Skinner, Willard decided to turn to primates as aides for the paralyzed because of the animals' grasping ability. She settled on capuchin monkeys. Only 1% ft. high, they have long been used by organ-grinders, are highly intelligent, far more malleable than larger monkeys, and can live up to 30 years...
With a $1,000 grant from the Tufts rehabilitation department, Willard purchased two laboratory-bred capuchins named Crystel and Tish, at a cost of $350 each. Willard spent nearly a year training them with Skinner's trial-and-reward techniques and finally felt ready to turn them over to two handicapped people. One was a Mystic, Conn., woman who worked with Tish for three months before the experiment was halted. The other was William Powell, 31, who has been paralyzed from the shoulders down, except for partial use of his right arm (though not his hand), since a motorcycle...
...Tony Green (Cor) 49.15; 2. Kevin Carty (P) 49.20; 3. Jacob Dennis (Cor) 49.80; 4. Dave Bailey (Cor) 49.90; 5. Steve Skinner (Penn...
...Teaching of Writing--seminar with Robert Fitzgerald, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; Dudley Herschbach, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science; Richard Marius, senior lecturer on Expository Writing; and B.F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Science Center...