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...first place, we will define abnormal psychology. Abnormal psychology is a systematized collection of facts, concepts and hypotheses dealing with types of mental processes and behaviour that depart from normal and average forms. It includes a study of such common phenomena as dreams, reveries, slips of the tongue, morbid fears and anxieties, feelings of guilt and inferiority, obsessional ideas and compulsive acts, as well as the less common manifestations of hysteria and the halucinations and delusions of the insane...
...neurosis day after day for a year or more. In the presence of the insane a professor of psychology is no more at home than a country boy on his maiden voyage at sea, or a savage in the presence of an eclipse of the sun. It is a common error to condemn a subject on account of the peculiarities of the men that practice it. It is only natural that in the early stages of any science there should be an undue amount of mythological speculation. It it not to be wondered at that there are innumerable unwashed...
...there may be at Oxford. The College undergraduate does not share a community with the Law or Business School student because they are all Harvard men. What he does share with these others is the sense of a larger community wrought by no more tangible bond than the common search for knowledge. Where Oxford is a fellowship of a number of groups, each sufficient unto itself, Harvard is a fellowship of a number of individuals, each free to make...
With the arrival of a new year, however, Mr. Chrysler certified that the major part of the fable was indeed a fact. He announced that the name of the Chrysler Corp. was changed, significantly, to Chrysler Motors. He said: "It welds together the advantages resulting from the common policy of engineering, purchasing, manufacturing and financing under one personal head...
...Raskob-du Pont type; Chrysler relies chiefly on Walter P. Chrysler. General Motors is close to J. P. Morgan & Co.; Chrysler is the good friend of the Brady family and, more recently, of Dillon, Read & Co. General Motors has issued the huge total of 43,500,000 shares of common stock,† Chrysler only 4,423,484. General Motors sold 1,576,708 cars from January to October; Chrysler's 1928 output was about 500,000, will be 700,000 in 1929. General Motors earned $289,146,201 in the year ending Sept. 30; Chrysler, $25,049,270. General...