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Subjects were 27 college students recruited from introductory psychology classes. These students had relatively weak problem-solving skills On a pretest of 10 multistep word problems, they averaged four wrong answers. 

My Christmas surprise in 1955, as I approached graduation from Cornell University Medical College, was a persuasive Army recruiter. 

As an undergraduate at Wellesley College, Martha McClintock noted that her female dormmates tended to synchronize their menstrual cycles over time. When she pointed this out to a group of scientists at a pheromone conference, she was challenged to study the phenomenon scientifically if she wanted to be believed. She took up the challenge, recruited 135 women from her dorm, and collected the data on dates of onset of menstrual cycles. The data strongly supported her informal observations and she wrote up the results of her study as her senior thesis. 

This period also marked the expansion of scientific employment opportunities for African Americans outside of historically black colleges and universities (Atkins, 1949). These changes did not come without pressure from the federal government, however. In fact, much of the progress has been attributed to the efforts of the FEPC, which was mandated to draw on all of the United States human resources during a national crisis. In short, a critical shortage of scientists and engineers expedited the recruitment of African American scientific talent (A Monthly Summary of Events and Trends in Race Relations, 1945, p. 6). 

About the Author Ms Belsey is Vice President of College Relations and Professional Recruitment for Rite Aid Corporation. Michele received a B.S. in pharmacy from Duquesne University in 1992. She has been with Rite Aid Corporation since that time and has been involved with the company s development training and recruitment since 1998. Her department specializes in domestic and international pharmacy relations. Ms Belsey has served on 11 schools of pharmacy advisory boards. 

Oberlin College was founded by British "Christian missionaries" in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Like the ancient anti-Christian Manichean cult, Oberlin was organized around the principle that the material world was wholly evil all students (i.e. initiates) were required to become vegetarians. From Oberlin s student body some of the most violent radical abolitionist terrorists were recruited, trained and deployed and safehoused during the Civil War. (5)... 

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