Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ocean of buncombe . . . high-salaried experts in solving the insoluble and achieving the impossible ... a truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive tuition (or, at all events, of pleasant recreation) for downright idiots...
...Hill's 30 Northern professors, meeting occasionally for talk and drink, called themselves the "Damyankee Club." Psychologist Chase was a member. He was also, by 1919, the faculty's chairman, the college's acting dean, the university's acting president. In that year, the story goes, the trustees tired of trying to agree on a new president and turned the matter over to the faculty for a vote. Chief candidates were a Southerner and a Northerner. The Damyankee Club tactfully cast 30 votes for the Southerner. The other 170 professors voted for Harry Woodburn Chase...
Screamed a Dr. William M. Hess, who called himself a "physiological psychologist": "Not even God Almighty Himself can convince me that 2% beer isn't intoxicating...
Godfather of the new specialty is famed Professor William McDougall, 61, social psychologist, whom Harvard enticed from Oxford and Duke enticed from Harvard. Editor of Character & Personality is Dr. Robert Saudek, learned London interpreter of handwriting. Associate editor is Ernest Seeman, manager of Duke University Press and a persistent collaborator -with the late Aviation Pioneer Samuel Langley in experiments on flights of vultures; with Astronomer Harlow Shapley on light rays and energy of insects; with the late Thomas Alva Edison and Louise Guest Rice (Manhattan graphologist) in a system of character analysis...
Among first contributors is Psychologist Carl G. Jung, Freudian apostate, preceptor of the late Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Dr. Jung says that Dr. Sigmund Freud's explanation of neurosis as due to the repression of sexuality is lopsided, that petticoated Victorianism made Dr. Freud think as he does...