Word: professors
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Then Charles W. Slack, assistant professor of clinical psychology, began a radical new research program for changing delinquents into useful, job-holding citizens. Sometimes criticized by local social workers, discouraged by law enforcement authorities, Slack's plan has drastically reduced crime among boys on whom it was applied. Of the 25 boys under the program, only three have been returned to prison--an amazing figure when contrasted with the national return rate of 50 per cent. The boys were not picked at random; rather, key gang leaders, "incorrigibles," were chosen for the program. In fact, before Slack was interested...
...defense, Dr. Harry S. N. Greene, professor of pathology at Yale University's medical school, testified that the case against smoking has not been proved. He said he smokes, even when he has a chest cold, because it brings on a "productive cough" that eases the pain in his chest. Dr. Thomas H. Burford, professor of thoracic surgery at St. Louis' Washington University, said that he smokes about a pack and a half of cigarettes a day, but he has no sympathy for the person who cannot stop smoking. Said he: "I do it every month...
...Cambridge Neighborhood Theater will present a play by one of its members as a part of the Workshop program the weekend of November 4. One week later Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, will supervise the production of Albee's The Sandbox...
...after the first minute of Piston's Serenata for Orchestra, one realized that everything was completely under control again. Professor Piston's work of 1956 was originally commissioned by the Louisville Symphony and received a fittingly excellent performance at its East Coast premiere last night. After being delighted by its boyish allegro--which has more than a bit of Copland to it--and its sensuous slow movement, I cannot quite understand the reticence of other orchestras to take up the short, light work. Everything that was first rate about the Bach Society's handling of the other pieces...
Speaking at the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs, Abram J. Chayes '43, professor of Law, pointed to arms control and aid to underdeveloped countries as the two major areas where initiative is needed...