Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the War, since the appointment of suave, handsome, slightly dull Livingston Farrand as president, Cornell vitality has ebbed. What new ideas American education has today come elsewhere than from Cornell. Cornell's great scientists have gone. One of the last was famed "structuralist," psychologist, Edward Bradford Titchener (died 1927). Students from Europe, the Orient, the 48 States, no longer seek Cornell. Now many of those from outside New York State come as sons of loyal old graduates. Hiram Sibley's grandson is a Harvard sophomore. Cornell never drew young socialites from smart Eastern schools. Once...
Given $1,000,000, how many people would continue to work? Dr. Harry Dexter Kitson, psychologist and Professor of Education at Columbia Teachers' College pondered this question, determined to find out just how interested people are in their jobs. Most accessible for his experiment were teachers and nurses. To them he put this question: ''As the 100 degree point, think of that activity in which you would spend a major portion of your time if you had $1,000,000 and were not obliged to work. Then check the point on the scale which denotes your interest...
...business acquires a significance divorced from the unpleasant character of a fetish if the knowledge sought is not cloyed with a mass of irrelevance: Many polls on the question of drinking are weighted with requests for information about various environmental influences, which, interesting as they may be to the psychologist, have little significance in relation to the fundamental free choice idea of any mass government...
Despite the fact that recent comment has been rather in the direction of difference than indifference, there still seems to be evidence of a prevalent feeling that Harvard is a fitting subject for the attentions of a mob psychologist. The undergraduate is put in the embarrassing position of feeling that he ought to explain, and knowing that any attempt on his part will only make matters worse...
...Psychologist Henri Bergson, most famed student of laughter, says it is mainly a social phenomenon. "Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. . . . However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary...