Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Demand for an investigation into the causes of the death of F. William Burgess, Freshman law student, whose body was found in the Charles River Sunday moring, awaited the arrival of the parents of the dead boy from Cincinnati...
Harmony, Professor Burgess then examined in detail the relationships of married couples, reported these signs of a successful marriage...
Test. Having developed a method of measuring success after the ceremony, Professor Burgess proceeded to design an objective test to predict success or failure before marriage. This he did by examining significant facts in the background of the successful couples. Good and bad matrimonial risks, according to Professor Burgess...
Reviewing his findings, Professor Burgess declared they furnished "conclusive evidence that by the use of statistical techniques, prediction of success or failure in marriage is feasible, in terms, to be sure, not of the individual couple but of the group into which the couple falls." Observing that success in marriage "now depends more than ever before upon the findings of research in the psychological and social sciences," he proposed establishment of a Marriage Adjustment Research Institute to develop even more reliable methods of prediction...
Most ironical comment on Professor Burgess' effort to eliminate the gamble from marriage had been supplied by the professor himself. Two years ago, after a first-hand study of gambling in Chicago dives, Professor Burgess recommended that gambling be legalized, declared: "Gambling is inherent in human nature and cannot effectively be suppressed...