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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hypotheses dealing with types of mental processes and behaviour that depart from normal and average forms. It includes a study of such common phenomena as dreams, reveries, slips of the tongue, morbid fears and anxieties, feelings of guilt and inferiority, obsessional ideas and compulsive acts, as well as the less common manifestations of hysteria and the halucinations and delusions of the insane...
...treatment of selected cases of the psychoneuroses. At present psychopathology as a science vibrates uncertainly between two extreme, points; concepts based upon the brilliant but unsubstantiated intuitions of certain eminent psycho-analysts and the results of a mass of unenlightened objective tests assiduouly performed by more conscientious but less inspired workers. The illumination that comes from the interplay of imagination and practical experience needs to be merged with scientific methodology, rather after the fashion of the experiments Dr. Morton Prince '75, before more progress is to be anticipated. It is this that we are attempting to do. During the fall...
When emotional religion is carried to so great an extent, it Borders dangerously upon the fanatical. Manifestations of Providence can too easily be misinterpreted in the light of human pleasure to be at all times a trust-worthy guide. To a college student, moreover, whose experiences are more or less apt to be limited, the camouflaged nature of the revival meetings present an attractive outlook; when, however, all his thoughts become interpretations of divine will, his mind can scarcely be receptive to the more tangible facts of education...
Mohammed and King Canute were no less successful in their contests with the forces of nature than are most attempts of mere mortals to feel the thrill of seating in the seats of the mighty. And yet, in metaphor at least, that is what the applicants are privileged to do in this trial of their judgment. For, to choose but one from a notable array of the great, has not the one and only Babe Ruth rendered his verdict in just such a test? The name of an equally famous athlete who is rumored to have chosen wrongly...
...good musical comedy followed by a little dancing at one of the better night-clubs. As for the homogeneity--the Business School has dances under the auspices of the Gaydon Club which are generally very well attended and otherwise successful. Yet, obviously, these men have no more--probably less, in fact--to hold them together than do the members of the Junior Class...