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...nent's weaknesses. As was Johnston's, his best shot is his forehand though until this year it was so undependable that he made j a habit of borrowing his friends' rackets, taking lessons, practicing against a wall when the trick deserted him. Two of his uncles are Watson Washburn, 19 21 Davis Cup player, and Julian S. Myrick, onetime (1920-22) president...
...LIFE AND TIMES OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM-Robert Collyer Washburn—:Putnam...
Biographer Washburn hazards no opinion about Lydia Pinkham's belief in her own invention, thinks her opportunism may have been socially useful. "The overwrought key of the advertising, its appeal to beware of vague symptoms, such as the blues and dissatisfaction with life, and the hysterical note of the testimonials, suggest that the Vegetable Compound cured that additional weakness that was largely psychic. Who is to say it may not have done this job as well as psychoanalysis...
Last week the Academy gave Miss Sabin a companion of her own age and quality, Margaret Floy Washburn.? In 1908 Miss Washburn published her first book, The Animal Mind and simultaneously became professor of psychology at Vassar, where she had been an associate for five years. For a term she was president of the American Psychological Association, and for another, vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Miss Sabin can match her there, having been one-term vice president and two-term president of the American Association of Anatomists...
Professor Washburn's great and good friend at Vassar was Felix, the Greek Department's old black cat. Felix knew all the stunts of the psychological laboratory and he helped out in a friendly way. He and she, she would half-seriously say, knew what each was thinking. Once Felix had nothing to say. That was when Professor Washburn co-starred with President Henry Noble MacCracken in the Vassar faculty play...