Word: yales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first call is made for managers. On Monday candidates for Freshman Football Manager are to report at the Harvard Athletic Association at 11 o'clock. A seven weeks competition closes the week of the Yale Freshman game with the appointment of a manager, two assistants, and dormitory team managers. No previous experience is necessary, and the work throughout the competition is made as interesting as possible, the more tedious tasks being accomplished by paid employees...
...young men in Boston suburb reproductions of Baliol, Magdalene, etc. There is an endowment available for one of them. A further projection of the idea is that the athletics of the university shall be principally contests between the houses, as at Oxford and Cambridge, with university matches only with Yale...
Pavlov. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's ven- erable appearance at Yale's International Psychological Congress was no anticlimax to his visit at Harvard's International Physiological Congress (TIME, Sept. 2). The psychologists showed the old gentleman great respect. Though they knew of him only at second hand (through the Behaviorists), though he spoke in Russian and in highly technical terms on "A Brief Sketch of the Highest Nervous Activity," they applauded him tremendously before and after he spoke. He said that he felt justified in separating certain reflexes, as food, sex, defense, from the rest of nervous activity...
...monkey house. No uncouth student ever annoys the beasts for they are the wards of Robert Mearns Yerkes. He, who made a Harvard reputation studying the behavior of the dancing mouse,* has for the past five years been discreetly studying anthropoid intelligence for God, for country and for Yale. No simple task has that been, especially since apes do not behave normally in captivity. To study them as best he could he once spent three weeks at Havana where a Se?ora Rosalie and a Se?ora Abreu have colonies of simians. Professor Yerkes' Almost Human (TIME...
...with its prize of a four-year scholarship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he and the three boys from Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Indiana, respectively, had done so well that Mr. Edison thought they deserved four-year tuition at any U. S. college. Bright Boy Brunissen chose to enter Yale...