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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With some 65 concentrators last year, Psychology has been a slowly rising field. Its appeal has hitherto been due perhaps largely to its past reputation as an easy field. This is in a way misleading, however, for unless the concentrator devotes himself to the work, he will not benefit, since the nature of the subject forbids its being drilled into one's head by the application of facts...
...Fogg Museum, the latest concerns the 11th century mosaics of the mosque of Santa Sophia at Istanboul. Freed in the last five years from their covering of Turkish plaster and decoration, these have proved to be the work of a master school, surpassing all the provincial mosaics which have hitherto been known. The Museum is now devising a method for making copies of them, as a record for students and an inspiration to artists, and the workshop has been conducting experiments on three different lines in the hope of reproducing not only their color but the surface texture...
...month-old war. Most striking thing about the war to Sheean, who reached Spain only two months ago, is its incongruous combination of ultra-modern and primitive methods. The ultramodern: "Newfangled bombs, thermite, delayed-action fuses and the like, which are capable of greater destruction than any bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take the place of trenches and are sometimes supplemented by small dugouts along their sides. There are no ordnance or survey maps...
Banker Morgan was followed by his son, who revealed a number of hitherto unpublished figures about the House of Morgan's business. During 1937 Morgan's bought and sold $849,000,000 in Government bonds. Of this, $709,000,000 was for the firm and partners, $139,000,000 for clients. Transactions in "other bonds" totaled $185,000,000. In stock transactions, Morgan's handled 2,738,000 shares, 140,000 of them for the firm and partners, rest for clients...
...Dent; one of England's most eminent critics and musical biographers, has brooded over the problem of translating operatic texts into sensible, singable English. Published recently were his translations of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and Beethoven's Fidelio. Where a hitherto much-used 1850 translation of Don Giovanni reads...