Word: programing
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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...
Slack's "Streetcorner Research" program hired its subjects and then paid them for each visit on arrival at the laboratory--no matter how late they might be for the appointment. This follows the theory of "immediate reinforcement" developed by B.F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology. After a few sessions the youths began attending regularly and the researchers had passed the first barrier: they had overcome to a degree the "no-work ethic" of the group and instilled a congnizance of time. The "identification" resulting from continued association could then take place. The boys became gradually accustomed to regular, though...
Neither party has a coherent program or philosophy. The Republican gubernatorial candidate has expressly denied his party affiliation, with posters declaring "Vote the Man--Vote Volpe." The Democratic candidate was picked only after a long and wasteful primary battle, in which seven hopefuls competed in a long, vitriolic session of name-calling and issue digging...
...site between Memorial Drive and Mt. Auburn St. opposite Kirkland House has long been the University's first choice for the location of a tenth House called for in the Program for Harvard College. Since February, 1958, the Administration has offered to buy the land for $4 million, a price which includes five dollars per square foot, plus an additional million as a bonus payment...
...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...