Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insane. More advanced courses are offered in this subject a the Boston Psychopathic Hospital by psychiatrists from the Medical School. Social Psychology and the Psychology of Personality are taken up from the point of view of the sociologist as sell as that of the psychologist. As for the more exact departments of psychology, there are courses in Statistical Method, which is highly mathematical, in Experimental Psychology with laboratory work, and in psychophysiology. It can be seen from the foregoing remarks that a number of courses in other fields must be related to Psychology. Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, parts of Biology...
Psychology may claim as its best point its informality and breadth. Some of its departments are far nearer philosophy than science; others vie with the most exact of the sciences in accuracy. The field is not difficult; its material is of cultural and academic, rather than of practical value, dealing with principles and schools of thought, rather than with the application of these principles. It attempts to give the student some insight into the workings of the mind, both human and animal, an insight which, although it may or may not be of assistance in attaining one's first million...
President Roosevelt adopted the three Hoover categories of news, and did not promise to answer all questions. But he limited his audience strictly to the regular White House corps; and he permitted quotation only of his exact words, as recorded by the stenographers. The complete transcript of every press conference will be kept, said the President, because he does not want to revive the "Ananias Club." as Theodore Roosevelt called White House visitors whom he had to turnquote...
...illustrated rather more amusingly than usual in last night's Transcript. The inspiration for the article in question is the state of affairs in Widener Library. Here, it appears, there is a considerable sum of money set aside for the purchase of books in French, dealing with the exact sciences, and nothing else. There are also funds for the acquisition of books on Siam, California, and for volumes once owned by Coleridge, and annotated by him. This money can not be spent for anything other than the particular field mentioned by the donor, whether more important purchases...
Information has not been divulged as to the exact nature of the plot, but it is generally known that part of the play takes place on the ocean, and that the authors of the creation have been busy on the lyrics and music on and off for about a year...