Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study of a comparison of entrance grades with subsequent records in Columbia University, initiated 30 years ago, prompted famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike to declare entrance examination estimates of future undergraduate success wrong 47 times out of 50 times. He judged the correlation between real student accomplishment and course ratings 60% as erroneous as if the examination marks had been assigned by lottery...
...first Broadway production, The Thief, featured the late Kyrle Bellew, ran for nine months. His Melo, presented in 1931, gave Basil Rathbone two months' employment. Never the author of a distinguished play, Henry Bernstein in his native France is nevertheless a distinguished playwright, an able literary psychologist, a sensitive observer, a careful craftsman. It takes a little something more, however, to make a good play, and that, unanimously decided Manhattan reviewers, is what Promise...
...Therndike a leading educational psychologist is the Alexander English lecturer in Secondary Education...
...Manhattan chambers of New York Supreme Court Justice Samuel I. Rosenman one day last week a man and woman signed their names to the foregoing contract. The woman was Dr. Myrtle Bryan McGraw, 37, child psychologist of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center's Babies' Hospital, campaigner for brighter and better-trained moppets, famed for her observations of twins Jimmy & Johnny, Margie & Florie, in each pair of which one has been carefully trained and the other raised like any other child (TIME, Sept...
...Jung spends now and then a few weeks in the U. S., but even if he had spent all of the time of his last sojourn in America in the company of Mr. Roosevelt, as a scientifically inclined psychologist, he could not have justified his sweeping statement. As is so often the case with European scientists and "observers," the American mentality, the American concept and interpretation of democracy, and the true causes on which these are based, are foreign to Dr. .lung. He discovers Negroid and Indian traits in our mentality while he doesn't see that the Negroes...