Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Expectant scribes could only remain certain that when Andre Tardieu does choose to speak, he will step briskly up the stair leading to the Chamber's Tribune, open his remarks with accustomed arrogance, and drive straight on to his conclusions with merciless, go-getting logic, always presenting his thesis as simply ban sens (common sense), and implying that his opponents must be visionary scatter-brains...
...thus to diminish the incidence of depression and suicide and further sound scholarship. When it was understood that Dr. Shaw of the Department of Hygiene was competently fulfilling this office, black hints were circulated to the effect that the new group was about to conduct a systematic investigation of certain enigmatical obsessions prevalent in the Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology was sloughed out of Emerson Hall and quartered upon the most remote plot of land owned by the University. It was obvious that this geographical dissociation prohibited the possibility...
...demonstrations: 2. systematic psychological investigations upon volunteer subjects, most of whom are members of the class; and 3. investigation and treatment of selected cases of the psychoneuroses. At present psychopathology as a science vibrates uncertainly between two extreme, points; concepts based upon the brilliant but unsubstantiated intuitions of certain eminent psycho-analysts and the results of a mass of unenlightened objective tests assiduouly performed by more conscientious but less inspired workers. The illumination that comes from the interplay of imagination and practical experience needs to be merged with scientific methodology, rather after the fashion of the experiments Dr. Morton Prince...
...also of importance that informal cooperations with general biology and philosophy be made possible. It seems that in the realm of philosophy certain men are coming down upon a number of comprehensive synthetic generalizations which will revolutionize and then include the more special concepts of physics, biology and psychology. The philosophy of organism as developed by Professor Whitehead dissolves the old dichotomy of mind and matter. At such a critical epoch in the history of thought when all disciplines are affected, it is of advantage to each science to keep in close contact with the whole...
...appearance several years ago of a religious cult which incorporates into its system certain methods tending to arouse the emotions has called forth justified criticism. Labelled with the attractive slogan, "How to get real religion", its banner has inveighed many into an active participation. Then, as soon as these innocent volunteers have entered the intricate labyrinth, another's authority is sufficient to compost their personal surrender--their setions and duties, no longer in their own control, are said to be ordained by divine will...