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...core of the book, however, is the scientific study made in the psychological laboratory of the Uni-versity of Wisconsin. Most such investigations are vitiated by faulty methods or factors of interest, suggestion, deprivation, prejudices, etc. Dr. O'Shea and, his colleague, Dr. Clark L. Hull, determined to eliminate these subjective elements, and devised a "control" pipe, containing an electric heating coil. The subjects were given this while blindfolded and were surprised to learn later that they had not been smoking tobacco, but merely drawing in heated air. Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacconalia | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

Word now comes that in the quiet of his Mississippi home he is rereading Horace, Homer, and Sophocles, love for which were developed 50 years ago at the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), at the Uni-versity of Virginia and at the Uni-versity of Heidelberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Use for the Classics | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...Baptist connections of the Uni-versity of Chicago have been so far relaxed that the President need no longer belong to that denomination and only three fifths instead of two thirds of the trustees need be Baptists. Chicago was the last of the great universities to retain such a connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago and the Baptists | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

Died. Cassell W. Mowery, first baseman on the West Virginia Uni-versity baseball team, of concussion of brain, at Morgantown, W. Va. In a game with the University of Pittsburgh he was hit by a pitched ball and died the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jun. 11, 1923 | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...permitted to duel. They have received all the privileges accorded to the male members of Germany's famous university except this one, but the fair creatures insist that they should have the right to slash one another's cheeks open with swords. An American student at the Uni-versity before the war was admitted to one of the celebrated dueling clubs - an almost unprecedented honor. After a wait of a few weeks he was called upon to take part in a duel. It is an inviolable rule that the opponents may cut, parry and lunge,, they may also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: He-Girls | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

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