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...result of the drowning Thursday on the Charles River, the Department of Athletics has instituted the use of red record cards for cases in which the Freshman swimming test is passed with restrictions, Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, confirmed yesterday...
...Orne's experiments was designed to test the importance of the subject's own views about hypnosis. This idea was derived from the classic formulation of the motivation view of hypnosis by Robert W. White, professor of Clinical Psychology. Basing his experiment on the hypothesis "that much hypnotic behavior results from the subject's conception of the role of the hypnotic subject, and by explicit and implicit cues provided by the hypnotist and the situation," Dr. Orne set up two groups of hypnotic subjects. Two separate lectures on hypnosis were given in an introductory psychology course. In one the erroneous...
Hypnosis can motivate subjects to perform extraordinary feats of endurance and strength, but appropriate motivation in the wake state, if properly applied, can also increase the physical capacity of the subject. In an experiment designed to test the effect of hypnosis versus that of motivation on the physical capacity, Dr. Orne had hypnotized subjects hold a kilogram weight at arm's length. They were told that their arm was resting on a table (hallucinated) and that they could feel no discomfort in it. They were asked to hold the weight as long as possible without dropping it or lowering their...
...methods so well that he rarely had to ask for an instrument. A laconic New Englander, he uttered hardly a word. One thing that set this operation apart: in the theater, also sterile-garbed, was Microbiologist Ruth B. Kundsin, who took air samples every few minutes to test for harmful bacteria floating over the patient's widely opened abdomen. For more than an hour the bacteria count stayed reassuringly...
Economists still believe firmly in gold's prime importance as the ultimate financial standard. They consider it psychologically vital to fiscal confidence, useful as a long-term guarantee that countries can meet their bills. But they have long since ceased to regard it as the sole test of a currency's stability. More important in today's world is the health of a nation's economy, the real rise in its national income, the strength of its built-in fiscal controls. Most nations now have learned the heavy price of unsound financial and fiscal policies; they...