Education
The Literary Lesbian Society
Here's an example of the changing meaning of words. As the text below explains (from Frank Gluth's history of Oak Harbor), in 1903, one could still use "lesbian" in a non-sexual way. But the latest reference I can find to the club is from 1964, an era when other meanings of the word became dominant.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 16, 2024 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Education, Regionalism, Sexuality, Twentieth Century
Listen Well, Learn Well
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 28, 2024 -
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Category: Education, Noises and Other Public Disturbances of the Peace, 1950s
Embryonic Development of the Light-Brown Apple Moth
Another contender in the Great Boredom Sweepstakes.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 21, 2024 -
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Category: Boredom, Education, Insects and Spiders, PSA’s, Science, 1960s
How many books do college students read?
We previously met Suellen Robinson as Miss Biological Research. Here she's posing by a stack of books that represents the number of books an average coed supposedly would read (back in the 1960s) during her four years at college. The number is 376.Officials of the Renault car company somehow arrived at this figure when they decided to sponsor a National College Queen Contest.
To read that many books a student would need to finish two books a week during the school year, and a book a week during Summer break.
I'm skeptical that the average college student (either back in the 1960s or now) reads anywhere close to that number. Perhaps they're assigned that many (though even that seems a bit high), but they're not reading them.
Orlando Evening Star - Apr 29, 1964
Posted By: Alex - Sun May 19, 2024 -
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Category: Education, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia, Books, 1960s
Space Songs
Here's a sample track from the album depicted below. The rest of the tracks are on YouTube.And a bonus! The first side of ENERGY & MOTION SONGS.
Tom Glazer at Wikipedia.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 29, 2024 -
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Category: Education, Music, Science, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1950s
Shocking Presentation
Just to prove that B. F. Skinner was not the only guy who could do operant conditioning, Willard Hayes Yeager decided to teach his student to speak better in public by the use of electric shocks.You can read his textbook here.
Teachers shock students at George Washington U. Washington, D.C., Aug. 2. Public speaking students at G.W. U. are only too well acquainted with the shocking machine, invented by Dr. Willard Hayes Yeager, Head of the department, to take the "ahs" "ers" and "ums" out of their diction. He is shown putting on the shocker to Jane Hampton, 17. When the student makes a mistake the professor at the other end of the room, notifies her by a gentle electric shock.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 08, 2023 -
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Category: Education, Sadism, Cruelty, Punishment, and Torture, Rhetoric, Eloquence, Public Speaking, and Vocabulary, 1930s
The Bergen Evans Vocabulary Program
I am having fun trying to make a coherent story out of all the sample sentences. It's a surreal masterpiece!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 02, 2023 -
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Category: Education, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Rhetoric, Eloquence, Public Speaking, and Vocabulary
The Acme Barbecue College
Once upon a time, in Alhambra, CA, you could go to school just for BBQ. One presumes that this is where Wile E. Coyote learned how to cook a Road Runner--if one such could ever be caught!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 01, 2023 -
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Category: Education, Food, Regionalism, 1950s
Unauthorized Dwellings 29
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 28, 2023 -
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Category: Education, Unauthorized Dwellings, Twenty-first Century
Ballads for the Age of Science
The whole playlist is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 21, 2023 -
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Category: Education, Science, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Children, 1960s
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