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...Princeton), Philosopher Arthur O. Lovejoy (retired). The Sun was dismayed at the gaps they left in the traditionally brilliant Hopkins faculty. But it was shocked much more at a new resignation just announced by President Isaiah Bowman, who soon afterward left town for a vacation: that of famed Economist Broadus Mitchell...
...Broadus Mitchell, 20 years on Johns Hopkins' faculty, was acknowledged an outstanding scholar on the South's economy and a popular teacher. To the Sun (which had itself quarreled with and been denounced by him), Dr. Mitchell had "stood for many years as a symbol of academic freedom" at Johns Hopkins. He ran for Governor of Maryland as a Socialist,* excoriated Marylanders for the lynching of a Negro, quarreled with Hopkins trustees, once went to Duke University to tell its co-eds that Benefactor James Buchanan Duke "was lacking in social insight...
...Sigma Xi Quarterly. Dr. Hall, who though only 30 is chairman of the psychology division at Cleveland's Western Reserve University and who is also getting bald, has spent many of his adult years studying "emotionality" (inherent susceptibility to emotional stimuli). Some researchers, such as Behaviorist John Broadus Watson, have tried to show that emotional endowments are all the same at birth, that differences appearing later are due to environment...
Such an award speaks for itself. Last week the patriotic British "Soupstakes" promoters further indulged their sense of humor by twitting U. S. housewives who entered the competition but failed to place. Tongue in cheek, the Soupstakers held up to British ridicule Mrs. M. H. Houghlan of Broadus, Mont., disqualified because the chief ingredients of her vegetable soup are beef knuckles and heel of beef. Also calculated to put Britons into stitches was the revelation that an egg dumpling soup was entered in the vegetable classic by Mrs. S. H. Long, No. 403 Sunnyside Ave., Waterloo, Iowa...
Died. Mrs. Rosalie Rayner Watson, 36, wife and collaborator of famed Child Psychologist John Broadus Watson, founder of Behaviorism and vice president of J. Walter Thompson Co.. Manhattan ad-firm; after brief illness; in Norwalk, Conn...