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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bales has found that a graduate student well-grounded in sociology and psychology can learn to use the machine after two or three weeks of practice. During an experiment, "actions' 'have to be recorded about nine times a minute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bales Creates a New Social Relations Machine | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

...play. It has had a memorable effect on all who saw it. Presented in Sanders, a theater which offers some of the most unreasonable handicaps ever placed on a college group (no proscenium, no sconery allowed, no backstage, no dressing rooms, no curtains, etc.), the VTW production made inspirational use of its handicaps. Aside from the excellent cast now working "ensemble," the real coup do theatre was made by the designer, John Holabird, who moved his audience out into the transept of Memorial Hall in order that the coronation scene at Rheims could be enacted beneath its Gothic beams...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: From the Pit | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

They will split into two teams on Friday for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangle debates. Today's arguments will serve as practice for those debates, for they will use the same topic: "Resolved, That the Communist Party should be outlawed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orators Compete Today for $100 Coolidge Prizes | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

Imposing amounts of evidence were presented by Simpson to illustrate the run down condition of public schools in the Commonwealth. More than 80 pre Civil War buildings and 176 one-teacher schools are still in use in the Massachusetts education system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simpson Speaks at State House | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

...picture has a few minor virtues, most of them negative. It is less noisy and violent than most semi-documentaries of its kind and its heroics are less improbable. A cagey use of understatement throughout gives the film an air of reality that is not backed up by its plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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