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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...
...meeting was addressed by its retiring President, Dr. J. McKeen Cattell of Manhattan, and by its President for 1926, Dr. Michael I. Pupin. Dr. Cattell described "a new profession of psychological and industrial engineering," already successful in England. "In every field of activity, from the use of the pick and shovel, of typewriter and ledger, through the factory and office, to the organization of the work of the Executive or the Congress of the nation, investigations might be made which, if put into effect, would add from 10% to 100% to effective productivity and lessen to an equal extent effort...
Intelligence Tests. Dr. J. McKeen Cattell, President-elect of the Association, led a symposium on the interpretation of intelligence tests. The existing tests foretell with great accuracy the probable accomplishment of children in school and college. They do not, however, measure elements of emotion or willpower, which have much to do with large public success. To be a Phi Beta Kappa or an Alpha plus man may be an introduction to Who's Who and a salary of $5,000, but it is no guarantee that one will build railways, manage industries, or be a maker of a President...
...four leading scholars of the fourth-year class, William L. McClure of Lawton, Okia., Walter S. McClelian of Hamilton, N. Y., Wyman Richardson of Boston, and Harold van der E. Williams of Reading; the four leading scholars of the third-year class, Fred W. Stewart of Ithaca, N. Y., McKeen Cattell of Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y., Paul A. Chandler of Hastings, Neb., and G. C. Prather of Anderson, Ind.; and the leading scholar of the second-year class, Edward L. Pierson Jr., of Salem...