Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wolfgang Kohier, eminent psychologist of the University of Berlin, will give a public 'lecture on "Psychology and Physics" by courtesy of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology on October 8 at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
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...
...Significance. By the unhappiness of Hans and Frau Grill, Novelist Edouard attempts to show the end of every peasant-noble union. Too good a psychologist, however, to prevent their becoming live individuals instead of idea-puppets, he succeeds in showing only that the couple were incompatible at times when many another husband or wife would have unearthed the remedy. He also shows how new people, people of money and power, took the place of the old nobility in his country. The social lesson is thus outmoded. If the author were to have lectured in the U. S. on the incompatibility...
...commissioner. Violators of community regulations are turned over by the police to the labor commissioner who makes them work. Thus, since Montezuma, like all schools, has chronic and clonic law-violators, a student-built gymnasium was erected. Last week, in Worcester, Mass., Clark University's Dr. Vernon Jones (psychologist) revealed a new method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader...