'e sen ses, re- so vill | Page 7 University Daily Kansan Neurologist Believes Rewards Aid Learning A Harvard neurologist demonstrated yesterday in a psychology lecture here that a retarded child may be taught with a system of rewarding his efforts with candy. Murray Sidman, assistant professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical school, said, "One of the first things any child may learn is to recognize geometric figures." Prof. Sidman showed slides of the results on an experiment he had conducted on the learning of geometric shapes by youngsters with the reward method. THE CHILDREN were rewarded with a piece of candy if they pressed the right key on a board with seven keys. The children were to press the one key that had some sort of geometrical shape on it. The figures were squares, circles or triangles. When the child got so he could press the right key no matter where it was located on the movable board, the unmarked squares were lighted. Next, the keys were covered with ellipses and one circle. The child had to choose the key with the circle in order to get the candy. The ellipses were made increasingly more circular until it was difficult to tell the ellipses from the circles. The point where each of the children became confused was recorded. AFTER PRACTICE, the children could push the correct key no matter what key was lighted or in what position the figure was. Then the children were exposed to six similar figures and a different one and they were to choose the different one for the reward. The only oral instruction given to the children was where to stand. Endowment Fund Set for Ex-Student Friends of the late Joe Traylor of Lawrence have established a memorial fund in his name of nearly $700 with the KU Endowment Association. Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary, announced. Traylor, an insurance underwriter and civic leader, died October 13. He was a 1929 graduate of KU. Thursday, Dec. 10, 1964 Youngberg said the fund, representing more than 150 contributions, will be used for student loans with preference to Lawrence residents. Every time the child made an error, the board was set in the pattern proceeding which the child had mastered. The learning process then proceeded entirely by the children's experience. fashionably YOU, too, every time you pay a bill with a ThriftCheck personal checking account. Your name, handsomely printed on each check FREE, makes each payment undeniably YOURS and adds to your reputation or being bust with your credit cards but a few pennies each and no minimum balance is required. And besides their good looks, you'll love the ease, comfort and safety of paying bills with your "very own" ThriftChecks. ქართული კონის შეცდეგი Douglas County State Bank 9th & Kentucky A Showboat of Live Entertainment Nightly ★ Friday ... Fore Wynds ... 9 & 11 P.M. Hours ★ Thursday Pete Shey 9-12 at the piano ★ Saturday The Villagers 9 & 11 from KC ★ Monday ... Mary Phillips ... 10-12 Chuck Crossen, Gay Layman ★ Tuesday ... Charles Shoemaker ... 9-12 of the College Jazz Quartet The Fabulous New Orleans Room ཁྱེར་མི་མི་བའི་སྐྱོང་གྲོང་ལྷན་ཀྱི་ཚོ་པུ་ཕྱེར་མི་མི་བའི་སྐྱོང་གྲོང་ལྷན་ཀྱི་ཚོ་པུ་ཕྱེར་མི་མི་བའི་སྐྱོང་གྲོང་ལྷན་ཀྱི་ཚོ་པུ་ཕྱེར་མི་མི་བའི་སྐྱོང་གྲོང་ལྷ勾ད 23rd & Naismith International Club, P-t-P To Honor Wescoe Chancellor and Mrs. W. Clarke Wescow will be honored guests at the International Club and People-to-People Christmas party at 9 p.m. Friday at the Little Banquet. present music and dancing from their native countries. Dancing music will be provided by a Chinese combo. African and Arabic students will All KU students are invited to attend the party. Two hundred profess- sors and their wives have also been invited. There is no charge. Free bus transportation will leave from the Kansas Union at 8:45 p.m., 9 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Christmas is the world outdoors, and... Ober's 821 Mass. VI 3-1951 SUA FRIDAY FLICKS "The Mouse That Roared" STARRING Peter Sellers ★PLUS★ "The Case of The MUKKINESE BATTLE HORN" (A Peter Sellers Short) ADMISSION 35c FRASER THEATER 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Coming Dec. 18: "ON THE WATERFRONT"