Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just a ten-minute talk at a Rutgers convocation, but long enough for the speaker, Philosopher Houston Peterson, to peddle a provocative thought. Why didn't everyone at Rutgers read one good book a year-the same good book? Added Peterson: "On a university campus, we ought to have more to talk about than football, girls and the Russians...
...court of Queen Elizabeth; pudgy Josiah Royce ("the Rubens of Philosophy," William James called him); and Philosopher George Herbert Palmer, who once told a student: "It will hurt nothing at your age to have a nervous breakdown. As a matter of fact, I sometimes think it would be a good thing . . ." And there was Charles Eliot Norton, the unappeasable pursuer of beauty. After his death, students guessed that he, would enter Heaven shading his eyes against the glare and protesting: "Oh! Oh! Oh! So overdone! So garish! So Renaissance...
...gold medal and certificate given to him, Dr. Pressly says, mark the approaching end of the old country doctor who worked alone. And a good thing, too, he thinks. For the past six years, Dr. Pressly has had two doctors working for him on salary. He has a hard time keeping them because they prefer the "easier life" of the big-city specialist. He has two nurses, a maid and bookkeeper. His brick-veneer, well-equipped clinic building, which started out with seven rooms...
...city has not waited for the state to act. San Diego last month put into effect an ordinance regulating psychologists, "marriage counsellors," etc. A five-member city commission has set up the requirements for getting a license to practice: good moral character, two years of graduate study or the equivalent in psychology or related fields, plus two years of experience under proper supervision. By last week the commission had turned down one application and granted one (to a member of the commission). Several other applications are pending...
...Virginia licenses practicing psychologists, requires that they be of "good moral standing," hold a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in psychology, have five years' clinical experience. Connecticut "certifies," but does not license psychologists, requires a Ph.D. in psychology, two years' experience...