Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merely amusing aspect of it is the use of some words alien to my normal vocabulary. It just happens that 'papa,' for example, is a word which my family recognizes as one I dislike and forbid them to use; and now, when they read in your book of my using this word for my own father, they laugh quite...
...first feel dissatisfied with the notion that his highest level of intelligence has already been reached. But a little thought dispells this uncomfortable feeling. In the first place, the rare thing is not to possess intelligence, but to utilize it. Probably no one will ever know how much the "normal" individual could accomplish, if means were found to extract and utilize all his thinking powers. Since no one does know everyone secretly prides himself that (except in particulars) he "has as good a head as the next...
...your issue of Feb. 9. 1925, you state "Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was founded in Virginia in 1868 by the American Missionary Association, became independent of missionary control under the ," Presidency of General Samuel Chapman Armstrong...
...William McDougall, Professor of Psychology at the University, and a member of the committee invited by the Scientific American to judge the claims of mediums to produce super-normal physical phenomena, yesterday made the first public statement as to why the committee would not recognize "Margery...
...Fraternities status quo plus the open house:--No more fraternities should be introduced into Yale College until normal rather than artificial equilibrium be established among general pleasure and enjoyment be had from the large amount of money which must be spent a un fraternity buildings in the immediate future. The spirit of existing interfraternity agreement must remain unimpaired. Yale College would suffer immeasurably from the magnified interfraternity competition and the consequent exaggeration of fraternity importance...