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INVENTED MECHA: Skinner, The inventor of a "mechanical baby tender" will visit the Uni versity campus soon. Dr. B. F. Skinner, professor of psychology at Harvard University, will give a lecture at 8 p.m., Dec. 3, in Room 210 of LeConte Col lege at the University under the auspices of the University chapter of Sigma Xi, national science honorary. According to Dr. Tomlinson Fort, professor of mathematics at the University, Professor Skinner is one of the leading psychologists In the world. After earning the Ph.D. in 1931 from Harvard, he was a National Research Council Fellow from 1931 to 1933 and Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1933 to 1936. He then joined the psycho logy department at the University of Minnesota, where he remained until 1945 as associate professor. Invented "Baby-Tender" During 1942-43, he conducted war research sponsored by Gen eral Mills, Inc., and he held a Guggenheim Fellow from 1944 to 1945. In 1945 he became chairman of the Department of Psychology PLACEMENT INTER PAA Guided I To Talk With Interviews scheduled next week by the University Placement Bu reau include talks with represen tatives of the guided missiles range division of Pan-American World Airways System. Pan American recruiters will be at the School of Engineering Monday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and at the School of Business Administration from 2 to 5 p.m. Other interviews for next week are listed as follows: Tuesday International Paper Company representatives will be at the School of Engineering Tuesday to talk with seniors in chemistry and all engineering fields. Representatives from the Pru dential Insurance Company of America will talk with January graduates in liberal arts and bus iness at the School of Business Administration for openings in their Jacksonville office Tuesday. Wednesday Seniors in chemistry, biology, physics and engineering May talk Wednesday with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company representatives in the chemistry department. Conference Registration Ends Dec. 1 December 1 will be the last day for registration to the United Students Christian Council Con ference at Davidson College to be held Dec. 27-Jan. 1, Ted Ledeen has announced. Five hundred delegates is the maximum number accepted to the conference which will include rep resentatives from 10 southeastern states. The conference is run on a first-come, first-serve basis and any interested person is advised to submit his registration as soon as possible. Registration can be made on campus through the participating religious groups or the YMCA or YWCA. The conference is an inter denominational study conference which is one of nine regional con claves being bold throughout the United States. The theme is "Our United Wit ness in Colleges and Universities" and the principal talks will be made by Dr. Waldo Beach of Duke University. His daily talks will be "The University in the Plan of God," "The Brokenness of Universities," "The Broken Wit ness in the University," and "The Basis of Our Unity." Bible Study leader will be Dr. Albert Winn of Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Head of the Planning Committee is Malcolm C. McIver, director of the southern Presbyterian student work. Moot Court (Continued from page 1) Eight schools were representedi at the meet. Carolina is still eligible to par ticipate in the national finals to be held in New York City although the USC team lost to Virginuia, its only defeat. Kermit King, Heyward McDon aId and Robert M. Holmes repre sented the University law chool. TICAL BABY TENDE Psych olo at Indiana University. While there, he developed his "mechanical baby tender," an air-conditioned crib in which he raised one of his own children. This device was pub licized in Life and other national magazines. During the summer of 1947, Doctor Skinner conducted an ad Dr. B. F. Skinner VIEWS issile Agents Students Representatives from Aluminum Company of American will be at the School of Engineering to talk with engineers and chemists. Allison Division of General Motors Corporation will talk with mechanical, electrical and aero nautical engineers at the School of Engineering Wednesday. Thursday Crosley Government Products Division of Avco Manufacturing Corporation will interview all types of engineers at the School of Engineering. Also on Thursday, the Chem strand Corporation will be at the School of Engineering to talk with engineers and chemists. Friday Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation rep resentatives will interview aero nautical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineers at the School of Engineering Friday. January graduates of the School of Business Administration may talk with representatives from National College and University Life Insurance Company for open ings as sales representatives on Friday at the School of Business Administration. Interested students may arrange for interviews through the schools involved. TOP LAW STUDENTS . .. O sity La1w School honor society, are chief justice; Betty Jo Edens, assi' Jr., clerk of court. Officers of Wi, ing students in the Law School. News Service) Chapel Is For Worshi (Continued from page 1) ties: the capacity to say " I think," "I feel," and "I imagine." The least is that "I think." That of saying, "I feel," is slightly higher, in that it is the ability to love and be loved; and the capacity to say, "I imagine," the highest of all. "The scientIsts of today follow the imaginers of yesterday. Men live in the light, not of people who can think, b)ut people who can image. This University is not the consequence of people who could think, but of people who could imagine. If you become a p)risoner' of logic, you have drawn your lim itations. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidlence of things not seen. "The man who says, 'I believe,' is the man of tomorrow. The man of adventure is the one who lives as if certain things were true arid as if they would make those things true for all." R ist, Spea vanced course in "verbal behavior" at Columbia University. The study became the subject of a lecture series when, in the fall of 1947, he was appointed by Harvsrd University as a William James lecturer, one of the highest honors attainable by an American psy chologist. After joining the Department of Psychology at Harvard in 1948, Doctor Skinner continued this study and is presently preparing a book on verbal behavior. Author of Three Books Doctor Skinner is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical So ciety and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to various technical books and articles, he is the author of "Be havior of Organisms," a novel, "Walden Two," and a general analysis of the implications of science for human affairs called "Science and Human Behavior." Experimental Work Doctor Skinner's major field of interest is the experimental analysis of behavior. He has con tributed to this study through work with rats and pigeons, but recently he has extended his tech niques to the human organism in the study of psychotic behavior, verbal behavior and methods of instruction in elementary schools. Sigma Xi is an organization of persons who are interested in, and have been successful in, re search. The Sigma Xi chapter of the University consists of seven Reserved Rooms Will Require Fee Starting next semester, all stu lents will be required to pay their room fee in advance to reserve a zertain room for the semester, Blackie Kincaid, housing office lirector, announced this week. Those students in rooms this emester will have first choice. P'he room will be available for reservation by others if the resent occupants do not indicate Lhey want it by paying the fee in idvance. Kincaid said a definite date by vhich reservations should be made vill be announced later. The reason for this change, he -aid, is to insure that no rooms vill be vacant while there are stu lents on the waiting list for ampus accommodations. In the nast, there have been several cases v'here a student did not notify Kincaid's office that he had hanged his plans and (lid not my longer desire the room. rficers of Wig and Robe, Unoiver (left to right) Robert M. Hotlmes, tant justice; and Paul Hlemphill, g and Robe. are the highest #ank. (P'hoto courtesy of University p, Jones Says versity Chaplain, presided at the dedication services. Others wvho took p)art in the pro gram were representatives of the other four major Protestant de nominations. They were as fol lows: the Rev. Archie R. Ellis, First Baptist Church; the Rev. Wallace Fridy, Washington Street Methodist Church; the Rev. Gray Temple, Trinity Episcopal Church atnd the Rev. Robert F. Shelby, St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Men's Clothing, Sh ks Dec. 3 members of the faculty and others in Columbia who have been elected to the honorary. Assistant Professor Promoted Dr. David D. Strebe was promoted from assistant to asso -ciate professor of mathematics at the University at a meeting of the Board of Trustees last week, according to Dr. W. L. Williams, head of the University Department of Mathematics. Dr. David D. Strebe Doctor Strebe has been a mem her of the University faculty since the fall of 1954. A native of Tona wanda, N. Y., he was graduated from State Teachers College in Buffalo, N. Y. in 1940 and earned the M. A. in 1949 and the Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Buffalo. He has also studied at the University of Texas. Before coming to the University, Doctor Strebe taught at .Le Tourneau Technological Institute, Longview, Tex., and at the Uni versity of Buffalo. He has had several mathematics papers pub lished. Doctor Strebe is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and Pi Mu Epsilon. He is married to the former Miss Roma Louise Valance of Conneau, Ohio, and they have two children. Euphiradiaiis Set Initiatory Talks Several new members will be initiatedi at the next regular meet ing of the Euphradian Society on Tuesday night, according to Carl M. Reynolds, program chairman. Preceding the installation cere monies, the new members will deliver their initiatory addresses. The society is open to all men on the campus wvith certain quali fications. Prospective members are required to attend at least three consecutive meetings prior to being accepted into the society. After attending the required number of meetings, the prospec tive member wvill be voted upon by the society upon recommenda tion of the membership commit tee. The committee bases itA re ports on an interview with the prospect. In addition, on the night of formal initiation, new members dleliver an adldress on any topic of their choice. The talk is not to exceed eight minutes, but must be longer than three minutes. Everyone is invited to attend the wveekly meetings which are ,held on the third floor of Harper College every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Euphradian Hall. Interested persons may become members in any month. "Everything in Musie" ALAN TAYLOR MUSIC SUPPLY CO. 1227-29 MaIn St. Phone 2-5721 Campus Briefs Dorms Remain Open All dormitories will remain oper during the Thanksgiving holidays Blackie Kincaid of the housing office announced this week. However, he said, they will bE closed for Christmas holidays. All men students residing on campus who will remain for the Christmas holiday period are re quested to notify the housing of fice no later than Dec. 15 to make reservations. Those remaining on the campus will be housed in tene ments 25 and 29, Kincaid said. Women students who will not be away should contact Dean of Women Arney R. Childs to make arrangements for housing over the Christmas holidays. * * * Slide Rule Classes Epsilon Lambda Sigma, honor ary engineering fraternity, will conduct a series of slide rule classes for engineering students. The classes were held Monday and Tuesday and will continue next Monday, Tuesday and Thurs day at 7 p.m. in the engineering building. * * * Library Schedule McKissick Library will follow a shortened schedule for the Thanksgiving holidays, Librarian Alfred Rawlinson announced this week. The library will close at 5 p.m. today and will remain closed all (lay tomorrow. It will be reopened Friday from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. It will be closed on Sunday and the regular schedule will be resumed on Monday. * * * Wesley Retreat Wesley Foundation will conduct a study retreat the week end of Nov. 30-Dec. 2 at Myrtle Beach. Designed to train Wesleyans in effective Christian living, the re treat intends to show how the group's unity affects the group, the University and the community. * * * Rings for ROTC Units Balfour Jewelers are designated as exclusive agents for rings for the Air Force and the Naval ROTC units. Students desiring such rings should place orders through the firm as the rings are not in stock. * * * Students Check Boxes Dean of Men J. T. Penney re mindls all students that they are resp)onsible for checking their boxes regularly. This is the only means the Uni versity has of communicating with studients, Dean Penney said. * * * Honor Principle Debated Twvo members of the Honor Board wvill debate the honor prin ciple with twvo members of Clariosophic Society at the next meeting of the society Tuesday at 7 p.m., third floor of Legare College, according to Bob Finley, critic. The two members of the society to p)articipate in the debate will be Mat Stevenson and John Duffie. The names of the Honor Board members who are to par ticipate in the program were not available at the time The Game cock wvent to press. Everyone is invited to attend the meeting to hear the debate. La Cige end Send Profit to Phone Day 2-8077 X X. FORCED SMILE . .. Under hy man is assisted in opening his m head of the psychology departme Was told earlier in the demonstratii be unable to open his' month. ' Doctor Walsh at a meeting last psychology society. Lowell Crow meets twice monthly. (Staff phot Eu'. VA Director h Vets At Bang J. Ed Smith, deputy director of the Veterans' Administration Re gional Office in Columbia, will deliver the main address at the CVA banquet to be held in the assembly room of Russell House at 7 p.m., Nov. 30, Carl Reynolds, CVA president, has stated. During the banquet a white narble plaque will be dedicated to eterans of borld War II and the Korean conflict. Reynolds said To All USC May You Have A I THANKS SLATER FO( BALF Official, USC Rings A.B. an 10K Gold and 3 First two Initials and lasi . TOTAL PRI( (Girls' sell for $19.75 Also on Order Official FRED M 1340 Senate - Cli VENDOR! test Type ette, Pastry wich Machinm You Without Cost 3804 Devine St. Phone Nighi pnosis, student Sidney H1. Caugh outh by Dr. Kershaw M. Walsh, nt at the University. Caughman in by Doctor Walsh that he would rhe demonstration was given by Thursday of Psi Chi, honorary is president of the group which o by Ken Sturgeon) ro Address uet Nov. 30 that the plaque will probably be placed in Russell House. Preceding the banquet the vet erans will vote on two resolutions according to Reynolds. One will be for relief of the parking situa tion at Carolina and the other in support of Senate Bill 533 (to in crease allocations for Korean vet erans). At least 100 veterans and their wives or dates are expected for the banquet. Students: lappy and Fruitful GIVING ID SERVICE OUR Jewelers in Stock d B.S. 0 Pennywveight name enigraved FREE. E- $26.90 rind muast be ordered.) AFROT[C aund NROTC FILKINS tire [owers Apts. I INC. 5 ts & Holidays )375