Word: yales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before James McKeen Cattell became a journalist* and a pundit honored among the cognoscenti, he was a teaching psychologist at Pennsylvania and Columbia universities. Apt was his presidency of the International Congress of Psychology at Yale last week and witty, despite length, his speech of welcome. Said he: "In so far as psychologists are concerned, America was [prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social...
...Yale's President James Rowland Angell added amen to these idealistic sentiments, and the sessions went...
Personality. Physique, dress, manners, quality of voice, choice of language and characteristic social relations all go to make your personality. But they are useful only to the extent to which they affect the people you come in touch with. Thus decided Yale's Mark Arthur May, trying to develop a scale to measure personality. Zero would be a person who does not count for anything to anyone. High grade would be he whose presence or absence has the greatest influence on others...
Motion Pictures help children remember their lessons, help stupid ones get as good marks as those who ignore pictures. ?Yale's Daniel Chauncy Knowlton and J. W. Tilton...
...Yale, South Dakota, Illinois, Ohio Wesleyan, Notre Dame, Stanford...