Word: waltham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking its cue from PBH's Mental Hospitals Committee, the Social Relations Department is considering plans for a seminar in abnormal psychology next year with mental patients as "laboratory studies." Each student would work twice a week rehabilitating one patient at the Waltham Hospital under the supervision of a trained social worker. Seminar discussions, assigned reading and research would then relate the patient's own problems to broader psychological theory. For the first time, students would have concrete "field experience" to supplement their text-book psychology. At the same time, they would meet with psychiatrists and observe the mental hospital...
...defunct medical school squatted quietly near Waltham, Mass. The 200 acres of grass and mud were violated only by a stable, a single classroom building, a few houses, and The Castle, a fantastic melange of turrets and crenelations...
...have not been the only lure. Brandeis has not yet had to resort to the technique of many smaller schools: hiring many young teachers and then firing them before they reach the higher paying academic levels. As a result, good younger men have been able to develop at the Waltham campus...
Less cheerful about his ordeal was freshman weightlifter Jim Doty, who lost 32 lbs. training for the race and seven more running it. Competing as James Rotz of Waltham, Doty finished 79th in 3:30 flat. He collapsed after the race, as did several others, including one 70-year-old veteran. The luckier competitors merely end up with blistered and bloody feet. I'll never run again," Doty said afterward...
...appeal over TV for clues. Army and Navy helicopters flew over the area where Tom was last seen, and 100 M.I.T. fraternity men volunteered to join police in the search. But by the end of four days, only one lead had turned up. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sheehan of Waltham, Mass, reported that near 2 a.m. on initiation night, a boy answering Tom's description knocked at their door and asked to be driven "down the road to pick up my luggage." He said he was an M.I.T. student, but because of initiation rules, would not give his name...