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...deception was carried out by Pygmalion's authors, Harvard Social Psychologist Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, former principal of South San Francisco's Spruce School. They told the teachers that a new test could predict which slow-learning students were likely to "show an unusual forward spurt of academic and intellectual functioning." The exam, actually a routine but unfamiliar intelligence test, was given to all pupils. Teachers were then told which students had displayed a high potential for improvement. The names were actually drawn...
...names on this list, according to a BDRG spokesman, are Harvard Square merchants: Charles Chaprales, of Waltham, owner of the University Restaurant; and Benjamin A. Jacobson, of Newton, owner of Gold Coast Valeteria...
...NORMAN L. JACOBSON San Antonio...
Also, Arthur J. Jacobson, Lowell, Social Studies; Harry E. Shaw, Leverett, History and Literature; Simeon I. Taylor, Quincy, Biological Sciences; and Peter H. Wirth, Adams, English...
Effort V. LSD. The second year went much more smoothly, largely because the dissident teachers, led by Political Theorist Norman Jacobson, decided to bow out. By then, students were beginning to find that Tussman's insistence on turning on by hard intellectual effort was more meaningful than tripping out on LSD. "That second year was exciting," recalls Arthur Schmidt, 20, who is now a junior studying anthropology. "There were times when people were just exploding with ideas." Even some who deeply resented Tussman's no-nonsense ways eventually came close to idolizing him. "He is an authoritarian with...