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Towards the end of the 1930's Harvard's told Psychology Department found itself divided four to three on every question. The four were E.G. Boring, S.S. Stevens, John G. Beebe-Center, and Karl S. Lashley -- all experimentalists interested in the animal or physiological psychology. By winning every vote they...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: Social Relations at Harvard After Seventeen Years: Problems, Successes and a Highly Uncertain Future | 6/13/1963 | See Source »

The concept of the Zeitgeist can be a great palliative to Boring, as well as explanation. "I don't think President Pusey understands what is going on in psychology, though Buck did and Bundy was wonderful about it. But Pusey has wanted very much to have this new building and...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: E. G. Boring | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

To Novelist John O'Hara. it was "a kind of cave inhabited by giants of journalism." To generations of New York Herald Tribune men, it was the place they meant when they said they were "going downstairs." To Boulevardier Lucius Beebe, it was "an arena fragrant with the souvenirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hangouts: The Place Downstairs | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

The restaurant's real trademark was the match game, immortalized by the late James Thurber in a panel of line drawings. Under the rules, any number of players conceal any number of matches up to three in their fists; whoever comes closest to guessing the total number of matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hangouts: The Place Downstairs | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

That a man of Frazier's "class"-to borrow one of his favorite words-should find harbor on the Herald is as unlikely as the discovery of Lucius Beebe's byline in Mad magazine. Boston papers, the Herald included, rank among the dreariest in the land, a reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Boston's Uncommon Scold | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

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