Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roback, noted psychologist, gave the first in a series of lectures on "Cultural Personality" in Harvard Hall last night...
This school, which enrolls 1,000 youngsters, meets for 50-minute periods including a five-minute sermon by the pastor. Its professional teaching staff includes a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a religious educationalist. Its curriculum is full and varied. Outside the classroom its children visit social service agencies, put on plays, write essays on Peace, study local politics...
Confronted with this dilemma, most adults would choose annihilation-according to Dr. Knight Dunlap, distinguished Johns Hopkins psychologist. Somewhat dubious of this conclusion was one of Dr. Dunlap's distinguished colleagues, Dr. Frederic Lyman Wells of Harvard Medical School, head psychologist of Boston Psychopathic Hospital. Dr. Wells and his associates presented the Dunlap Dilemma on cards to 176 persons. In Science last week Dr. Wells reported that only one in six of his subjects voted for annihilation...
...busy Broadway corner, one Walter King was picked up by a Manhattan detective who accused him vaguely of swindling "a professor who wrote a lot of books." The professor was Duke University's famed psychologist William McDougall.† Last time Professor McDougall saw King was one autumn day in 1933. That day he gave King and a companion $10,550 in the morning, $10,000 more in the afternoon, for "royalty rights'' to oil fields in Iowa...
...knows better than Professor Edward Lee Thorndike that the schoolchild will close his dictionary in puzzlement, forget he ever wanted to know about candles. A quarter century ago Columbia's famed educational psychologist decided that something must be done for the millions & millions of youngsters between 10 and 15 who have to struggle with such monstrous definitions. That decision bore fruit last week when the Thorndike-Century Junior Dictionary came off Chicago presses...