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These two medals are awarded annually to scientists who have done something of importance to the scientific world, and they have been given in the past to such men as Thomas A. Edison, Professor R. A. Millikan, Professor A. A. Michelson, Professor Gilbert Lewis, and Dr. J. McKeen Cattell. The basis of the awarding of the medals is the report of a jury of distinguished American scientists as to the men most deserving under the purpose of the award...
Other educators clucked. Said Editor James McKeen Cattell of School & Society: "Nonsense. . . . Dr. Butler, however, succeeded in getting on the front page...
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...