Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the exceptional student reaches college, he has had eight years' training in how not to be exceptional. The unusual student who can survive all this-the destruction of initiative, the repression of spontaneity-is exceptionally exceptional." So spoke California Institute of Technology Psychologist John R. Weir last week at a round-table discussion of Caltech and Massachusetts Institute of Technology educators on how to cope with the exceptionally exceptional student...
...Physicist and Mathematician Robert F. Bacher, M.I.T.'s Gordon S. Brown (electrical engineering). Almost without exception M.I.T. and Caltech freshmen are the scholastic cream skimmed off the top 10% of national high school enrollment. "It's the rare Caltech student whose IQ falls below 130," explained Psychologist Weir. "The average is somewhere around 140." (A classification amounting to "very superior.") To single out the elite of this exceptional group, M.I.T. and Caltech are looking for something beyond pure IQ. They want, said M.I.T. Vice President Jtflius Stratton, "boys with the passionate interest in developing themselves...
...Appointment of the week: Psychologist George D. Stoddard, 58, former president of the University of Illinois, to succeed Ernest O. Melby, 64, next September as dean of New York University's School of Education...
Died. Robert Mitchell Lindner, 41, topnotch psychologist, author of the case study Rebel Without a Cause, which was adapted last year by Warner Bros, for a film of the same title; of a congenital heart condition; in Baltimore...
...psychologist and a law professor yesterday attacked Massachusetts Attorney General George Fingold for his support of the death penalty...