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Englewood. N. J., on the highlands opposite Manhattan, is a community of wealthy burghers, like Banker Seward Prosser, Editor Bertie Charles Forbes, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, Mental Hygienist Clifford Whittingham Beers, onetime Second Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow. Intelligent, they make certain, when they hire servants, that the help are healthy. But they cannot be sure with whom their employes run around on off days. This became shockingly evident when Dr. John Hawkins Irwin, Englewood health director, traced the eye infections and subsequent blindness of several Englewood children to gonorrhea in their nursemaids. So Englewood burghers...
...meters read. A London bride with a 30-ft. train to her gown lost, at the last hour, a bridesmaid. At Oxford a coroners' jury could not determine the cause of a violent death because all the jurymen and most of the witnesses had influenza. At Whittingham bailiffs were obliged to hunt substitutes for the police magistrates, all of whom were...
...inter alia, Clifford Whittingham Beers's A Mind That Found Itself (TIME...
...three years at the beginning of the century, Clifford Whittingham Beers was in hospitals and sanitoriums with a mental breakdown. It was caused by his foolish fear of being an epileptic, his overwork as a Yale undergraduate and later as an insurance clerk. Although wracked by wild illusions, his mind lucidly registered on his experiences. When he became well he had the impulse to document himself, to start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums. WTilliam James encouraged him. Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer invented for him the phrase "mental hygiene." Great names joined his movement...
College Students. Yale, Clifford Whittingham Beers's college and one of the pioneers among U. S. universities in applying mental hygiene methods to muddled students, has Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles as consultant in mental hygiene. Dr. Ruggles, pursuing investigations approved by Yale's President James Rowland Angell, reported that college men and women who need mental treatment need it chiefly because: 1) the competitive side of the educational program puts a strain on the student; 2) adjustment is necessary when the student changes from a small school where he was the leader to a large university where he becomes lost...