Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediate reason for the proposed incorporation was that the Oxford Group had been named as such in the will of a female doctor who wished to bequeath it ?500. The matter went into court in London, where Mr. Justice Sir Charles Bennett was informed in an affidavit that the Group "consists of a wholly indefinite and unascertainable number of persons who possess no organization and no secretary or treasurer or officer of any kind . . '. and who are endeavoring to lead a spiritual quality of life under the guidance of the Holy Spirit...
...rather strange arrangement," commented Mr. Justice Bennett. Asked if he would like to read a book called What Is the Oxford Group?, he snapped, "I won't, unless it is necessary," and adjourned the case, pending further evidence...
...Psychologist Arnold Gesell brought a children's clinic for studying infant feeding and other phases of moppets' development. Psychobiologist Robert Mearns Yerkes brought his famed apes, clapped them into a huge cage atop one wing of the building and continued to study ape behavior. Psychiatrists brought a group of deranged men & women, locked them up in another wing. With their paraphernalia of rats monkeys, cages, microscopes, slide rules, test tubes and books, in moved other psychologists, economists, educators, historians, statisticians, physiologists and a few Yale students studying research. Then its 150 savants and their disciples donned white coats...
...aggression theory was reported in the Harvard Educational Review by University of Iowa's famed Psychologist Kurt Lewin. In the University's Child Welfare Station, research workers formed two clubs of boys & girls about ten years old, set them to work making masks. One was a "democratic" group, with an adult leader who let the youngsters decide how to work, the other "autocratic," with a leader who gave orders and criticism without reasons. Observers' findings...
...autocracy the group ganged up on one child, treated him so badly that he dropped out of the club. Thereupon the club began to bully another "scapegoat...