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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Industry, N. Y. last month two pet bears named Andy & Amos were shot to death because one of them had killed a child (TIME, Oct. 24). Last week Director Edmund Heller of Milwaukee's Washington Park Zoo was concerned about press reports of a bear-killing in his zoo. Experimenting with groups of animals in large open dens Director Heller had placed together a pair of black bears, a pair of grizzlies, a pair of polar bears and a pair of wolves. All were young. Frolicking in their pool one day, the polar bears playfully began ducking...
...President Karl Taylor Compton, Nobel Prizeman Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago and Economist Wilson Martindale Compton; Dr. Roberts Andrews Millikan (cosmic ray opponent of Arthur Holly Compton), by the Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams''; Social Worker Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull House), by an LL. D. from Swarthmore College; Copper Man Daniel Cowan Jackling, by the John Fritz...
...Brooklyn announced it would give Leadership in the form of a course of 14 lectures on Tuesday nights. Instructor in the course-in which none of L. I. U.'s 1,078 students hurried to enroll-would be Francis George Wadsworth, who has done vocational work for the Y. M. C. A., the U. S. Army, New Jersey State Police, New York State Board of Education and the Brooklyn and New York Edison Companies...
...self-analysis, adaptability, flexibility of interest. Studies would also include a spatter of psychology, memory, will, habit, the brain and its structure. For homework the students would work over intelligence tests of the Army type and "Standard Interviews," a method of self-analysis which Instructor Wadsworth devised for the Y...
There are many things one longs to say to an indifferent Harvard. To the commonplace young man, the matter of fact young man, the study and stolid-y, week-end half-holiday, three A's and a B young man, the message...