Word: empiricist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...health of the community is the wealth of the railroad," Dr. Coffey's staff help public health officials throughout the railroad's territory. Dr. Coffey is an important California executive and a political power in the State. Professionally he is a surgeon. Characteristically he is an empiricist. "What works must be good.'' His first case, when he began practice in San Francisco 35 years ago, was a Negro who needed a minor operation. When the Negro saw the operating scissors he hauled on his clothes and ran. Dr. Coffey ran after. He, very poor, needed that...
...best of friends, is described in an undramatic fashion. If this and other accounts are slightly deficient in humor, they are nevertheless written without zeal. Perhaps Professor Palmer wholly appreciates the fate of those undergraduates of 30 years ago who year in, year out would listen to an empiricist like James tear down the frail web of idealism wrought by Royce or Palmer himself, only to witness the process reversed when they returned to the idealists...