Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intelligently. In the future they will teach specifically how to prevent mental and nervous troubles, how to treat and cure developed cases. TIME'S reference to what Yale's President James Rowland Angell said at the mental hygiene dinner last fortnight gave an erroneous impression. Yale was not the first school to have a staff psychiatrist. Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles started Yale's mental hygiene work. He is now consultant in mental hygiene in the Department of University Health. Harvard, Minnesota and Chicago likewise have full-time psychiatric staffs for their students. Brown, Washburn (at Topeka, Kan.) have special services...
...Putnam's Sons ($2.50). LITTLE BLACK STORIES FOR LITTLE WHITE CHILDREN-Blaise Cendrars- Payson & Clarke ($2). Dear Sooky includes letters written by Cartoonist Percy Crosby's famed U. S. small boy Skippy (TIME, May 20) to his poor friend Sooky. Crosby illustrations are plentiful. Skippy relates his first airplane ride and his first love, now caustically, now saccharinely. He signs himself "affectionately sincere." Little Black Stories have been bandied around African firesides by big black boys and girls for centuries. The book is a smash hit with French children and adults. Here rhythmically translated from the French...
...flaming jacket suggests that at least it has its lickerish moments. Not so. A stout French peasant lass, Georgette Garou, knows what she wants and goes after it with few words and indomitable dignity. She wants to keep her farm, to get a husband, to have a baby. The first two ambitions she easily achieves, but with the third she has trouble. The scandal (which her fellow-villagers lap up but which will not greatly move the reader) enters when she turns in despair from her husband to another man, for procreative purposes only. The results are unfortunate: though...
...First Week Easy...
...first week is conducted in such a manner as to acquaint the men with their work, and time is given to enable candidates to become acclimated to the atmosphere of a newspaper office. During the examination period work is reduced to a minimum...