Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dr. Thorndike's methods are dramatic, depend considerably on his ingenuity in designing tests. To determine the effect of adults' prejudices on their attitudes, he asked them how much money they would demand to eat a quarter of a pound of human flesh. To prove that heredity was...
Not many writers owe as much to a house as does Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West, wife of Diplomatist-Biographer Harold Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West grew up in an Elizabethan castle which contains 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courts, covers seven acres-an environment where, says Hugh Walpole, dukes meant...
"Often new students, Freshmen and graduates alike, who are plunged into the unfamiliar environment of Cambridge and Harvard are at a loss to know where to turn for information on persons, course material, and privileges," Williams explained. "We are trying to supply a kind of information which doesn't run...
Appointed last fall to serve as "missing links" between the Dean's Office and Hygiene Department and students, Williams and his associate, Norris P. Swett '37, have been working during the fall in an attempt to adjust bewildered students to their environment or vice versa.
In Slogum House, Mari Sandoz sets herself the gigantic task of making this unnatural mother humanly understandable, is kept from doing so by Gulla Slogum's many crimes, her lack of all familiar human characteristics except greed. An oldfashioned, 400-page chronicle, slow-moving despite its many melodramatic episodes...