Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training in psychology, whereas we doctors have not. Any knowledge of the subject that the school medical officer may possess he has acquired since graduation. It follows, therefore, that in dealing with such problems as persistent stealing or homosexuality the teacher is more likely than the doctor to have insight into the motivation, and in consequence is less,likely to treat the incident on the purely objective plane of social delinquency. It is true that in some of our boarding schools for boys, including certain very ancient foundations, there is no such advantage on either side, as neither master...
Edward Reynolds: After long labor as a surgeon, he has had the energy and insight to reorganize our Museum of Anthropology...
...that the ideas advanced are the same, but that the treatment of the new subjects provides engrossing reading. Professor Babbitt's books are always stimulating and thought-provoking, and "On Being Creative" is no exception. If the reader does not agree with him, he will at least gain an insight into the personality of the man whose critical theories are accepted as composing the only original doctrine to come out of Harvard since William James...
Affording the student interested in Mathematics ample opportunity to think for himself, this course in Mechanics given by Professor Osgood is one in which native ingenuity and mechanical insight are most useful; there are plenty of opportunities to develop latent reasoning powers in a subject which is altogether concrete. A student planning to enter any branch of engineering or physics will never regret the knowledge of elementary mechanics that may be gained in this course. Instruction is sometimes uninspiring, but the training and subject matter compensate for this defect
...also a facile imitator of the speech and dialect of any class of people. Mixing with the workers, his disguise has never been questioned. As an account of his first year's work he wrote "What's On the Worker's Mind", which gave a new insight into the life of the industrial laborer. Every year he gives the Business School an account of his varied experiences. His topic this year was "How the Unemployed Feel...