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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eldridge and another Club official, Oliver W. Woodburn '57, both expressed disappointment yesterday that the Senate consure vote precedes their own meeting. They explained that the meeting was planned more than a week ago, when the censure decision was not expected until late in the month. "The meeting doesn't have so much importance now," said Eldridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate, HYRC Both To Determine Stand On McCarthy Today | 12/1/1954 | See Source »

...Spanish proverb does not work out if doing nothing is carried too far. In a small attic office at McGill University in Montreal, Psychologist Woodburn Heron pays students $20 a day to lie on a soft bed in a soundproofed, air-conditioned cubicle. The students' eyes are covered by translucent goggles so that they see only a foggy glow. On their hands they wear cardboard gauntlets over thick gloves to deaden their sense of touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight of the Brain | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

When Harry Woodburn Chase in 1933 took over big, bustling New York University (12,072 students in those days), he had no trouble at all adjusting to the job. A onetime professor of psychology, Massachusetts-born Harry Chase had already served for eleven years as president of the University of North Carolina, for another three as head of the University of Illinois. N.Y.U.'s new Chancellor Chase was no man to be easily awed by size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grand Tour | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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