Word: mckeen
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Before James McKeen Cattell became a journalist* and a pundit honored among the cognoscenti, he was a teaching psychologist at Pennsylvania and Columbia universities. Apt was his presidency of the International Congress of Psychology at Yale last week and witty, despite length, his speech of welcome. Said he: "In so far as psychologists are concerned, America was [prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social...
...With James McKeen Cattell (see p. 52) he was one of the late great Psychologist William Max Wundt's first pupils. Later he married the daughter of a Schleswig-Holstein publisher, and did newspaper work himself. On the Frankfurter Zeitung he ridiculed the late Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's dirigible plans, recanted, joined the Zeppelin company, learned navigation, of which he had some skill from childhood at his native town of Flensburg...
Editor-Psychologist James McKeen Cattell, 68, the 1924 president of the Association. His dour look belies his loving-kindness towards scientists. He it is who records their work, as editor of Science weekly, Scientific Monthly, School and Society, American Naturalist, American Men of Science...
Presbyotia. People speak just about as fast as they hear?some 20 changes a second, said Dr. J. McKeen Cattell, editor of Science. To be heard by an audience or by people hard of hearing, one must speak distinctly and slowly, not loudly. A stump speaker's shouting is only a blur of tones to his listeners. In old people, the receiving apparatus of the ear becomes less elastic than in youth; it does not respond quickly to short waves (shrill) sounds. Words or notes of music following in fast succession run together and cannot be distinguished. The condition...
...Glenn Frank (University of Wisconsin president), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio R. R. president), James Branch Cabell (author of Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, etc.), Capt. William H. Stay ton (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founder and president), Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (U. S. Supreme Court) and Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Editor of Science) were bracketed and equally recommended, as "six highly intelligent and industrious men . . . gentlemen," by Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, for President...