Word: babcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, Dr. Harriet Babcock was perfecting such a gauge at the Manhattan State Hospital. Primarily she intended to grade the progressive mental deterioration of paretics. Converse result was to mark the clearing up of all befuddled minds. Vocabularies provided her with a clue...
...first things an individual learns and among the last he forgets. Each year that one goes to school, from kindergarten to college, he acquires new sets of words. These sets are measurements of his intelligence, or his "vocabulary age." To get norms by which to gauge the demented, Dr. Babcock tested nurses, doctors, Harvard students, maids, clerks and others rated non-psychotic as samples of the run of mankind...
...Babcock used the same tests on inmates of state hospitals, found that most were psychotic, were getting worse. However, some showed improvement to such extent that, with other factors considered, they were paroled to guardians...
Died. Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, 87, famed agricultural chemist; of heart disease; in Madison, Wis. His greatest contribution: the standard means of determining the butterfat content of milk. He refused to patent or exploit his discovery, saying "no one man was large enough to own a key to dairy prosperity." Last year he received the Capper publications' award for distinguished service to agriculture...
...Edward Wilcox Babcock, Troy...