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...Milwaukee, John Roback, tippler, took off his shoes, pushed his automobile down the street. Interrogated by Officer Tewes, he explained: "I'm in no shape to drive this thing. I thought it would be safer for traffic if I'd push it. I took off my shoes to keep my footsteps from bothering people...
...ROBACK, University extension lecturer and instructor in Psychology has, if nothing else, made clear the issues in the study of personality in his recent brief monograph. Students expecting detailed accounts of abnormal cases of the introvert and extrovert, or long digressions on sex inhibitions, phobias, complexes, etc., will be disappointed. Dr. Roback sets mankind into four classifications; those predominantly (1) cerebral, (2) muscular, (3) respiratory and (4) digestive. He then goes on to outline the tendencies of each group...
...Roback's last two chapters re titled "Can Personality be Changed" and "Remedying Certain Defects." Bearing, posture, gait, modulation and intention of the voice "enter into the total personality picture", but practice and exercise can accomplish much Dr. Roback makes numerous general suggestions, but his book is more for the student than for the subject. Perhaps the most skillful thing which the Doctor has done has been to make the layman know the meaning of the technical terms before he gets to them. This, and the easy conversational style in which it is written, make "Personality" good reading, even...
...Roback '17, a member of the National Research Council of Harvard, and the author of several well-known psychology books, will aid Professor Prince in editing the collection. The name of the printer has not yet been announced...
...superiority bump, like Mr. Taft's political one, becomes somewhat of a cavity, however, when he is informed of a very practical proposal that comes from his immediate vicinity. Dr. A. A. Roback of the University's faculty has voiced the opinion that colleges should have courses of instruction that especially prepare students for the quacks they will meet when they graduate, thus rudely upsetting the Harvard man's preconceptions concerning the advantages that his education was going to give him. He had always supposed that the enlightenment of which he was the recipient while in college would furnish...