Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famous as a leader of the so-called "Gesielt School' in psychology, Dr. Kohier is the author of a book called "The Mentality of Apes" which has had a wide circulation in psychological circles. Dr. Kohier is chairman of the departments of philosphy and psychology at the University of Berlin where he founded the Gestelt School. More by necessity than choice, Dr. Kohier took up the psychological study of apes. It was while he was interned on the Canary Islands that he did the research work in ape-study which resulted in the publication of his book...
...writers of other literary forms is that when he produces a work with deficiencies that would ensure its speedy extinction in any other medium he may have it cast and produced so effectively as to make it a hit. Such is the happy fate that befell Mr. Barry, the author of "Courage" now playing at the Willbur...
...great part of this result is due to the effective work of Helen Strickland as the aunt who is her opponent. In a part evidently intended by the author to represent a typical New England spinster she exhales a frigidity and arrogant intolerance that makes it one of the most memorable characterizations of the season. Junior Blake as the youngest and incidentally illegitimate son who causes most of the complications of the plot and eventually brings it through right side up, handles a long part very capably, and the other members of the cast lend more than adequate support...
...author was assistant professor of English from 1885 to 1890, and dean of the college from 1891 until 1902. For 20 years he was President of Radcliffe, retiring in 1923 to devote himself to literature. A portrait of Dean Briggs by Kanil Nakamura has been loaned to the Harvard Club of Boston by Radcliffe College...
Professor Garrod edited the Oxford Book of Latin Verse in 1912. He is the author of numerous books of criticism, and the editor of several editions of verse, both classical and modern. At one time he was editor of the Journal of Philology...