Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack Frost and the Bogeyman. So far did the reaction swing against the group mind concept that some skeptics began to deny the existence of collective behavior, to declare that it was simply the sum of individual behavior. Dr. Richard Tracy La Piere, associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, believes that both these views are wrong, that social interaction patterns should be taken as real, but as distinct from individual patterns. Out last week was his Collective Behavior,* a volume in which he has tried to assemble available data as "a tentative frame of reference for further study...
...Four of California (Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Collis P. Huntington), organizers of the Central Pacific, the Southern Pacific and innumerable West Coast companies, seem the most arrogant, most shameless of them all. Last week their group portrait appeared in a 424-page book which combined careful reports of skulduggery with excellent characterizations...
...Four, his first chapters make it plain that five men were instrumental in organizing the Central Pacific. The extra name was that of Theodore Dehone Judah, known as Crazy Judah in his prime, who surveyed the route of the Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevadas, persuaded Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated, humorless, and extraordinarily competent"-Author Lewis has great...
...late Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, was a firm believer in "psychic phenomena," endowed a chair of psychic research at California's Stanford University. First occupant was a distinguished psychologist, the late John Edgar Coover. Second and present occupant is a black-haired, tenacious young man named John Kennedy. Both Coover and Kennedy have used the research funds provided by Thomas Welton Stanford to try to expose the phenomena in which the donor believed...
...Stanford White, all this would have been no particular commendation of Albert Kahn as an architect. But young architects today have heard and understood Le Corbusier's definition of a house as a "machine for living," Frank Lloyd Wright's statement that in ideal architecture "form and function are one." Lately, to his great surprise, indefatigable Albert Kahn has discovered that the industrial buildings he has been designing all these years are "modern architecture." To show how essentially modern they are, in logic, economy, and use of steel and glass, THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week devotes its August...