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...committee that produced the report spent four years exploring the relation of emotion to learning. It had a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Its chairman is husky, placid Professor Daniel Alfred Prescott, 40, of Rutgers University. A onetime Harvard teacher, Dr. Prescott is widely respected by educators for his tremendous research in sociology and psychology, is also an indefatigable stamp collector...
...Prescott and his colleagues found human emotions a largely unmapped wilderness, its few known contours indicating that feeling's springs feed learning's river. Thus, whether an individual learns anything depends a great deal on whether he has a motive for learning it. One significant test showed that people learn pleasant words most efficiently, unpleasant ones less easily and words about which they are indifferent least efficiently...
Chief concern of Dr. Prescott was what can be done about training the emotions so that children will become well-balanced adults instead of arrested adolescents. The emotional impulses and cravings with which a child is born - love, fear, the need for affection and for the sense of belonging to a group - are bedeviled by many witches. Besides the timeless family jealousies and bickerings that make a child feel insecure, the accelerating tempo of modern life, the danger and excitement that fill even the comic strips, the rootlessness of city dwellers and competition in all things make "anxiety . . . the most...
...Gorham, Junior Varsity hockey, David G. Halstead, soccer and lacrosse, George McT. Kahin, member of the Spanish Club, Henry D. Minot Jr, Phillips Brooks House, William R. Pearmain, member of the Instrumental Club, Daniel S. Roosevelt, member of the Flying Club, James O. Seamans, member of the Mountaineering Club, Prescott H. Wellman, Jr., Robert L. Wendt, CRIMSON photographic board, and Richard F. W. Whitemore, Ski team and Dramatic Club...
News from the Lodge concerned the marriage of Miss Margaret Manson Weir, daughter of Mrs. David Manson Weir of Steubenville, Ohio, niece of Ernest Tener Weir, to William Prescott Bonbright II, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bonbright of Grosse Point, Mich. Under the trees on the front lawn E. T. Weir gave away his niece, a pretty girl gowned in white marquisette, with French orange blossoms around her waist, carrying a white prayer book and a spray of white orchids. After a reception and dinner, bride and bridegroom set off to spend their honeymoon at Uncle Weir...