Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prohibition, an experiment noble in purpose, was about to begin. Midnight on Jan. 16, 1920, it went into effect. Five months later, guns barked and drilled plump Diamond Jim Colosimo dead as a herring in his own restaurant. The murder was a clue to the sudden bustle in the underworld...
Twenty-two students, mostly Freshmen, have volunteered to act as guinea pigs in a novel experiment which the University is sponsoring, David B. Dill, professor of Industrial Physiology, announced yesterday. The object of the experiment is to determine whether gelatin is the miracle food it is claimed to be.
This Harvard experiment has for its precedent an interesting bit of research which was carried out in England. Drs. P. H. S. Hartely and G. F. Liewellyn investigated the records of the life span of the crews of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England for a 100-year period, 1829...
To date this enterprising experiment has accomplished nothing, at least nothing that can be reported. Tom Bolles says that it will be ten or fifteen years before the results will be known with anything approaching scientific exactitude.
This, of course, is just what the Harvard experiment will do. The oarsmen's life spans will be compared with those of their non-athletic classmates.