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...this time the usual attrition processes have failed; most of those freshmen pre-meds are still with it. Add to them the number who normally decide, while here, to go into medicine, and you have about 225. Stack on top of that about 50 who have felt the zeitgeist, in the person of affable General Hershey, breathing down their necks, and you have 275. Since it usually takes at least two years to finish the pre-med requirements, the full impact of revoking other graduate school deferments could not be felt until this year...
Forward to Zero. To most artists, however, the real lure is Düsseldorfs tantalizing whiff of Zeitgeist. The city's brusque hurly-burly provides both their modern subject matter and technological means for expressing their art. Gotthard Graubner, an abstractionist, for example, paints on huge, cloudlike formations of polyester produced at nearby factories. Peter Brüning, who like Winfred Gaul, is fascinated with traffic and touring maps, points out that he lives in Düsseldorf because it is the geographical center of a "seemingly endless area where roads become the interconnecting arteries between every possible manifestation...
...present Department of Psychology. In 1934 he moved before the Faculty that the Department of Philosophy and Psychology be separated into two departments under one Division, and two years later he moved that divisions be abolished if the departments wished. The success of these motions Boring attributes to the Zeitgeist: "The Zeitgeist had this event up its sleeve all along. Thus I had another lesson as to how the free action of personal will in a naturalistic world is a delusion...
...existence. Boring suggested that the Psychological Laboratory leave Emerson Hall for the Social Relations people and move into the laboratory S. S. Stevens had created in the basement of Memorial Hall. There Boring began to revise his 1929 History of Experimental Psychology, to work in "the paradox of the Zeitgeist which controls the Great Men and yet is controlled by them...
...concept of the Zeitgeist can be a great palliative to Boring, as well as explanation. "I don't think President Pusey understands what is going on in psychology, though Buck did and Bundy was wonderful about it. But Pusey has wanted very much to have this new building and has guided the Corporation to support it. So I don't share the bitterness and contempt I hear for the President. (Dr. Skinner is upset about the support of religion). Beebe-Center--a man who did the work of ten--used to say, 'Eliot is a University man, Lowell...