Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time Yale Law School had surprised the legal priesthood by employing laymen to help train its lawyers. First, in 1928, Yale made Economist Walton Hamilton* a full law professor, without benefit of LL.B. Then it signed on Political Scientist Harold Lasswell. Last week Hamilton and Lasswell made room for another layman: Philosopher F. S. C. Northrop, author of The Meeting of East and West (TIME, Aug. 12). Northrop, who has been teaching philosophy at Yale College since 1923, will now teach jurisprudence at the Law School...
True Love (Mr. O'Keefe), who rooms downstairs, is represented as a talented scientist but he shows little of the scientific spirit; he is, in fact, a pretty depressing type of momma's boy. It is only too clear to seasoned Miss Lamarr that this leaning tower of quavering male virginity could never survive the shock if he learned of her Past. He learns, of course; the rake is murdered; Miss Lamarr goes on trial for her life. True Love, Dutch-uncled by Psychiatry, comes of age just in time and snags the real murderer. The whole show...
Little can be said against the value of technical tools in economic analysis. Nor can the social scientist neglect the importance of a sound grasp of the study's principles and problems. But the stubborn fact persists that government and history concentrators criticize Economics A as more a menace than a means toward providing an admittedly desirable background. The graph-conscious approach, while clear to the average science major, sears a little above the head of the future historian or politician...
Clearly it is unfair to condemn the course hastily as of little or no value, for students uniformly testify that some of the light seeps through. But they are also quite uniform in their wistful comments on what might have been. Fortunately the problem of the confused social scientist grappling with a technical subject is not new. The Report on General Education clearly recognized it, and brought about the highly satisfactory reforms of the three Natural Science courses...
...more popular. Its 288-page anniversary issue proudly called the roll of such contributors as Henry George, Charles Darwin, William James, Havelock Ellis, John Dewey, Thomas A. Edison, Charles Kettering. By shrewdly aiming at the home mechanic who yearns for a speaking acquaintance with atomic physics, and the scientist who yearns for a handcraft hobby, PSM had become the giant in its oddly assorted field...