Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's faculty was excellent, and the students were advised to choose their courses by professors as much as by subject matter. William James was an instructor in physiology (NOT psychology), while James Russell Lowell taught English poetry. Informal discussions were initiated in order to bring the students into closer contact wit these figures...
...loans to the exhibition are varied in subject matter, medium, and style...
Szondi's tests have already been introduced into the U.S. In Manhattan, Mrs. Suzan Koroszy-Deri, his onetime clinical assistant at the University of Budapest (Szondi was driven out by the Nazis in 1944), gives a weekly seminar on the subject in City College.The Menninger Clinic at Topeka, Kans. also uses the tests. Szondi recently published a clinical handbook, Experiments in Impulse Diagnosis (Hans Huber Verlag; Bern). Last week in Switzerland, he was waiting in his Zurich apartment for reactions from U.S. and European psychiatrists...
...lighthouse of civilization. The three: Denmark's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Niels D. Bohr (who has been there once before), British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee (who presumably will work on the last volumes of A Study of History) and Poet T. S. Eliot (St. Louis-born, but a British subject since 1927). The institute didn't ask them what they would do; it was satisfied to let grown-up minds continue growing...
...aggressively Protestant Christian Century editorialized this week: "The Knights of Columbus are to be applauded for having 'hired a hall' in the advertising columns and there submitting the claims of their church to the test of the open forum. If Protestantism is wise, it will hasten to subject its faith to the same scrutiny...