Word: farnsworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, will moderate this evening's Career Conference on Medicine, to begin in the Dudley Dining Hall...
This is a delayed response to Mr. Jencks' scathing review (published in your issue of Dec. 14) of Dr. Farnsworth's recent book entitled "Mental Health in College and University." Although criticism generally should be absolutely free, with no holds barred, a publicly stated adverse criticism of the director of psychiatry in one's own college raises special problems. There are a good many Harvard students who, regularly or occasionally, apply to our psychiatric staff for guidance and treatment. Such treatment requires for its effectiveness complete confidence on the part of the student in his psychiatrist. Criticism in this area...
Indeed they are irresponsible. I am shocked at the outrageous smugness of your reviewer. I am willing, for the sake of argument, to grant that Dr. Farnsworth knows nothing of the field in which he has been trained and in which he has had considerable practice; but, not for any argument's sake, am I willing to grant that Mr. Jencks knows everything. His article is neither review nor criticism but self-exhibition,--a long-winded parade of half-baked psychiatry and sociology. He piles up platitude upon platitude like Pelion upon Ossa--for instance, "all intellectual activity...
September. Harvard's psychiatric staff is called in by coach Yovicsin to bolster the morale of the new members of the football team. Dr. Farnsworth will make a public statement, "The basic problem with these young men seems to be that they feel inferior. They are not inferior, of course, simply dislocated." The Admissions Board will make an immediate counter statement, "There is a definite place in Harvard College for these young men. Of course, we prefer to keep them out of Eliot House...
...Farnsworth said he could see "no objection" to the test's line of questioning. Freshmen were asked to express their "likes and dislikes" on such topics as "listening to sad music, doing crazy things, crying at weddings and funerals, and listening to friends talk about their love life...