Time-Spaced Reporting of a "Crime" Witnessed by College Girls

This is a review of the literature, including 50 titles.2The many details of the present study have been treated statistically with great care by Dr. Vickery and are available in fair completeness.3 The setting of the "crime" was as follows: Students at Alabama College for Women (year 1936) occupying center and left section of the auditorium, rows B to R, eighteen and fifty-five feet respectively from the open stage; stage is thirty-four feet wide; day is bright and clear; footlights have been turned off; stage has a grand piano, a bench, two big chairs, four light chairs, and a table with books; an intermediate curtain shuts off back stage.The class, started at 3:30 P. M., has been listening to the instructor for fifteen minutes when, from the inner side door at the front-left and in full view of everybody, a pursued boy dashes into the side aisle a step or two, exclaims confusedly, and then followed by his two pursuers mistakenly gets onto the stage, where, fully visible to the girl students, all three rush about amid overturning furniture, general clatter, and shouting.The incident, consuming only one minute and thirty seconds, was all prearranged and rehearsed with the three boys with due attention to numerous details of appearance, dress, action, and stage properties.The instructor followed and rebuked the intruders, then returned to ask the class to write out freely a description of the occurrence

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