Word: psychologist
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Died. Edward Lee Thorndike, 74, since 1904 Columbia University's famed educational psychologist; of a heart ailment; in Montrose, N.Y. One of the creators of the original Army Alpha intelligence test used in World War I, he wrote more than 450 books and articles on experimental psychology and the nature of learning...
...most resounding byline on the Anglophobe Chicago Tribune belongs to British-born John Lucius Astley-Cock. Now 74, bushy-browed, patrician Astley-Cock has been, among many things, a Cambridge University athlete, linguist, Shakespearean scholar, psychologist and church organist. At the Trib, where he has worked since 1932, his nominal title is assistant education and religion editor. But he has done his most enduring work as the paper's doctor of philology, in charge of amputating letters from words. One day last week, Astley-Cock's byline heralded the latest additions to the Trib's simplified spelling...
...Clinic was founded in 1926 by Dr. Morten Prince, a noted Harvard psychologist, amid rumors that it had been set up to analyze the Faculty. At that time the philosophy department was in charge of the strange new science: the thought of being held responsible for the antics of the maniacs they imagined were under care at the Clinic trouble the sleep of the philosophers for many years...
Quite early in its history, the Clinic began the practice of inviting visiting dignitaries and distinguished men from the University to come for the 40-cent lunch and talk with the staff. Julian Huxley, H. L. Mencken, and the psychologist Carl Jung are among the diverse visitors the Clinic has had. The late Robert Benchley also came. He arrived in the middle of the joke experiment. Benchley showed great interest in all the apparatus used to measure a person's internal and external responses to the jokes, and in a few weeks the Clinic staff was reading an elaborate parody...
Douglas Anger, psychologist, of Sheldon, Connecticut. A.B. Colgate University...