Word: terman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frederick E. Terman, Director of the Harvard Radio Research Laboratory, has been appointed a dean of the Stanford University School of Engineering, according to an announcement by President Donald B. Tresidder on December 26. He will succeed Samuel B. Morris who has resigned to take a Los Angeles civil post...
...Dean Terman received an A.B. in Chemical Engineering in 1920, an E.E. in 1922 from Stanford, and a Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. in 1924. He became an Instructor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford in 1925, assistant professor in '27, associate professor in '30, and has been full professor and executive head of the Electrical Engineering Department since...
...might have revealed the fact that his father, Boris Sidis, realized his wrongdoing long before Professor Terman. Shortly after the ending of World War I, I met Boris Sidis in California, and he asked me to expose Bill to a mixed group of young people in order to help the boy overcome his gynophobia (fear of women...
Folklore holds that child prodigies usually come to no good. Kennie's parents and Psychologist Huntley think otherwise. Group studies of bright children (e.g., by Stanford's Lewis M. Terman) show that they usually turn out healthier, wealthier and wiser than average children...
...deplored mankind's inhumanity to geniuses. Eighteen years ago, as an experiment, she picked 50 of the brightest children (I. Q. 130 to 200)* in New York City, started two special classes for them at Public School 165, near Columbia. Like Stanford University's Professor Lewis M. Terman (TIME, Oct. 14), who for 18 years has followed the careers of 1,300 gifted Californians, Dr. Hollingworth watched her "geniuses" as they grew...