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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 150 eminent U. S. and European psychiatrists last week helped dedicate the New York State Psychiatric Institute & Hospital, part of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian medical center. The visitors repaid their hosts by describing recent psychiatrical studies, conclusions, viz...
...hygiene work. He is now consultant in mental hygiene in the Department of University Health. Harvard, Minnesota and Chicago likewise have full-time psychiatric staffs for their students. Brown, Washburn (at Topeka, Kan.) have special services. The colleges for women have been more progressive in providing mental hygiene experts, viz. Smith, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Wellesley, Elmira (Elmira, N. Y.), Pembroke...
...periodicity of 25.66 months in the heat given off by the sun. If further observations show this periodicity to be real, meteorologists may be able "to fore- cast at least two years in advance the principal solar changes, and whatever of importance may prove to hang thereon," (Dr. Abbot), viz. crops, icebergs, baseball games...
Born Criminals do not exist, said George Washington University's Fred August Moss. But many a person has tendencies which predispose him to crime, viz., epilepsy, paranoia, paresis, dementia praecox, senile dementia. Smalltown children are less apt to become criminals than children of large communities, added Columbia's Hugh Hartshorne. A friendly classroom atmosphere is one of the most powerful influences on child character. "Moving pictures do not contribute to delinquency," said Philadelphia's Phyllis Blanchard. "I have sat in motion picture theatres and marveled. . . . When the villain is caught, as is always the case under the policy of those...
...next week three transcontinental air-&-mail routes will be in operation, viz...