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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1925)
SHUT IN TEST Department of Psychology Will Try To Discover Influence 0 n Attention Illumination of Printing Type One-Tenth Second, Method Of Investigation Miss Georgia Johnson, under the supervision of Dr. Harold R. Cros land, of the psychology department, is working on a series of type tests, based upon the fact that the ability of a person to take in a great many items at one time, by seeing, hearing, or any other sense, is limited. Dr. Crosland, due to his knowl ege of printing, has conceived the idea of using different sizes of type and different fonts of type to discover their influences on the range of attention. Attention Limited The customary technique of the experiment regarding the range of attention is to expose a group of mixed letters of the alphabet to the eye for one-tenth of a second, and to determine about how many of those letters flashed before the eye can be recalled correctly im mediately afterwards by the aver age person. The result is known as ^he normal range of attention. “The range of attention is .al ways limited,” Dr. Crosland ex plained. “When we try to spread our attention over too much ground, we don’t add to the number of items which fits our original abil ity, but make mistakes in those items we usually could get correct ly.” The apparatus used in the type 1 The Daintiest Pumps Can Be Cleaned Even though they are the daintiest of pumps they can he cleaned or polished to look like new- Never think they are too soiled to be cleaned. Ask Us Before You Decide SHINE ’EM UP “Next tp Jim the Shoe Doctor” , LAST DAY Beauty demands its bounty— “Folly of Vanity” — with — BETTY BLYTHE BILLIE DOVE JACK TVIULHALL Century Rex Comedy News tests is a little box containing a system of mirrors in such a fashion that light sent through frosted win dows is reflected on a card. This card reflects through a transpar ent mirror into the eyes of the sub ject. , The light is equally distri buted over all the characters on •the card, and the apparatus is so arranged that the flashes of light can be controlled and limited in time to one-tenth of a second. Nothing moves before the eye, and all disturbing influences are elim inated. In addition to the tests using dif ferent types and different fonts of the same type, the subject is also tested by various letter combina tions to see what arrangements of letters and of the line of print, with the serifs above or below, are most legible as shown by an in crease in the range of attention. Combinations Used i Combinations of letters all tall, j short, curved, diagonal, -or oblique are introduced successively by the | card. Then the different kinds are ! combined, such as curved and obli j que. or tall and short, in order to j determine where the fewest or j greatest number of errors are made. 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The students appearing will be Arthur Gray, Florence Couch, Cecil Matson, Alfons Korn, and Edgar Buchanan. Volleyball Teams Are Chosen; Games To Be Played In Round Robir (Continued from page one) regardless of the time played. Following is the list of competi tors placed on first class teams seniors, Murphy. Vulgamore, Lewis Dale, Da vault, Velma, Scholl; jun Subscribe for the Emerald. 3In!rainl!nllrDlHiniinanillnl|n!|nlIrarr'JMi3|ij)|®r31eir5Ejp!; Do Not Buy Your Dance Programs or Christmas Cards From Traveling Salesmen Before Looking Over Our Line We have exactly the same quality Programs as Eastern firms at East ern prices, and we are always here to take care of your every need. The Caldwell Press 72 EAST 9th PHONE 233 [5g{3EiS[SfgI3iEI3MSISlBi5I3M3I3ISM3I3ISIS Patronize Emerald Advitisers iors, Schnell, Vesta Scholl. Pepoon, Fargher, Williams, Best; sopho mores, Zimmer, Saott, Osborne, Johns, Marvin, Dietz; freshman, S. Elliott, Kershaw, E. Smith, Brown, ' Aim, Burchaw. 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