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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edgar James Swift, 72, psychologist, author (Mind in the Making,* The Psychology of Childhood); in Hollis, Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 12, 1932 | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Died. Margery Latimer Toomer, 33, novelist (We Are Incredible, This Is My Body), white wife of Jean Toomer, Negro psychologist and writer; after childbirth (daughter) ; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 29, 1932 | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Psychology of Capital Edward Let Thorndike (Columbia psychologist) presented a literate, lucid thesis on this subject Excerpts: "It is true that manual labor built railroads, bridges and homes, but it is also true that, except for the direction of that manual labor by non-manual planning, these would never have been built. Manual labor, undirected by science invention and management would have hardly built huts to keep out the weather and would today make playthings out of the factories and bonfires out the schools. Manual labor has been a ready to waste itself for years in building pyramids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. in Syracuse | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Salvage the Aged, reasoned Paul Strong Achilles (Psychological Corp.* director) is an obligation of psychologists. Six million people, one out of every 20 in the U.S. are over 65. Two million of them lack work because employers, fearing that oldsters are slow and can learn no new tricks, will not hire people over 40. Columbia's Edward Lee Thorndike has demonstrated that this is a misconception. The capacity to learn diminishes very little between 20 years (the peak) and 55. Walter Richard Miles (Yale psychologist) has shown that septuagenarians do things more speedily than the average person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. in Syracuse | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Smart also talked at length: "Being a psychologist and a student of the mind, I found in the Public schools no ideas aiming at perfection. ... I give them three hours a day on technicalities the academic foundation similar to that they'd get in school. And three hours social play. They're learning everything they'd learn in school, and they're building character, which they wouldn't do there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smart Smarts | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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