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Using a new method asdopted by the Navy, the Crimson Network will offer undergraduates a ten-week course in receiving Morse code...
...Psychological Laboratory, which at the west end of the building trains undergraduate Morse Code classes in less than half the time expected by the Army and Navy, maintains facilities for physiological research at the east end. Graduate and undergraduate thesis-writers here are each charged with the welfare and guidance of from twenty to a hundred or more cute rodents. They feed them, pet them, train them, and give them cerebral lesions. Sometimes a rat bites a student, but the average rat is a pretty good egg. They sit up in humanoid poses, coyly cock their wee heads, and squeak...
Working on thirty undergraduate guinea pigs, the Psychology Department is conducting a series of experiments trying to determine who can learn the International Morse code, and who can't; under what conditions it's learned best; and whether or not success or failure can be predicated in advance. The thirty guinea pigs are more than willing subjects, for during the ten-week course they'll all attain speeds of close to thirteen words a minute in receiving code, enough to win them their amateur Radio Operators' license...
...second of its kind to be given during the past few months. The first one, conducted for twelve weeks during Summer Session, yielded some interesting results which Taylor hopes to expand in the present course. It showed, first of all, that Harvard students' ability to learn the code far exceeds the average expected by the Army and Navy. The latter puts forth 130 hours of practice as the amount of time required to reach a receiving speed of 13 words a minute; over half of the Summer Class reached that speed in less than 45 hours of practice...
...Taylor's prime objectives in giving the course is to make up an accurate test to determine in advance how successful a man will be in learning the code...