Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day. Last week he donned his mask and buskins and played Theseus, father of Hippolytus who spurns the love of his stepmother. Phaedra. An actress (Phaedra's nurse) who had played before with Dr. MacCracken was Professor Margaret Floy Washburn, famed psychologist, one of the few female members of the National Academy of Sciences (TIME, May 11). Hippolytus was given in the original Greek, with full chorus and a new musical score, in Vassar's Experimental Theatre. The Greek department assisted; students who took part will be given degree credits. Dr. MacCracken, English...
...Vagabond is feeling particularly uneasy this morning, but to determine the cause of this mental restlessness would probably not tax the genius of a psychologist unduly. It is a preliminary symptom of that dread disease common to most dwellers in this academic atmosphere, namely Cantabrigophobia...
...that such disturbances are a necessity and should be entirely condoned. But nobody will, and there is little danger of such an attitude becoming prevalent. The general public will simply make a few choice remarks about "fool college boys" and let it go at that. But a good psychologist could probably give a very interesting dissertation on the secret springs in adolescent human nature which occasionally break out in the geyser. like proportions of students riots. Naturally elderly gentlemen don't start riots. In the first place because they wouldn't dare, but more than that, because most of them...
Like the late great Poet Robert Browning, Edwin Arlington Robinson writes poetry dramatically. In the work of both poets, however, psychological action, messengered emotion take precedence over narrative. But Browning had an elan that New Englander Robinson has not. A subtler poet if not a subtler psychologist, Edwin Arlington Robinson is a Browning without the bounce...
...questioner Max Meyer. Missouri's psychologist, will be tried by the school from which he was banished for a year because of his sex questionnaire Reason for the trial: He read before a psychology society a paper complaining of the Missouri attitude. Missouri is not like Harvard, an institution where scholars may go and work with the assurance of freedom in teaching and research and the security of tenure granted in the ranking universities of the country...