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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More serious has been the opposition of the colonial powers to continuance of the 16-member committee which analyzes the social and economic data from dependent areas. The life of the group was recently extended three years by a vote of 41 to 4, with Britain, France, Belgium, and South Africa in the minority. Britain complained that information was being used by Russia for propaganda purposes, and that the committee had been given an "illegal" assignment to study political questions. The British also felt that reports should be made on all backward areas, self-governing as well as dependent...
Faulty vote counting in the 1950 Permanent Class Committee election was discovered last night when a recount held in the Student Council office revealed that William L. Curwen '50 is actually on the committee, and Albert B. Carter '50 is number 13 in competition for the 12-man group...
...Experiment in International Living, Inc. has announced that this summer for the first time it will offer a seven-week trip to Israel for a group of ten students of college age, as well as its regular journeys to 19 English, French, Spanish, and German speaking nations...
This is the second year of experiments led by this group, which last year set up an air-tight method of testing extra-sensory perception or "the ability to perceive one's environment without means of the senses." The highly significant results of the tests were reported in the September issue or the Journal of Parapsychology, published by Duke University...
...method the group used was to have students try to duplicate an IBM examination sheet which had been checked at random and which was at the time 500 miles away. This year the society will conduct the same experiments and will try to determine how personality traits affect the students' attempts to duplicate the sheet. Previous experience suggests that personality traits do have a bearing on extra-sensory perception...