Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany, students do not want to be educated, they want to become scholars", said Professor Kurt Koffka of the University of Glessen, Germany, internationally known educator and psychologist, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Koffka was comparing German universities...
...psychologist of today exhibits the phenomenon of "color hearing" as one of the marvels of the age. In listening to a symphony the people who possess this strange faculty are said to see all the colors of the spectrum succeeding each other in harmonious arrangement. Some tones, they say, are red, others voluptuous purple. Even the ordinary man is now familiar with languid blues in music...
...turn to an humbler and a purer diversion in his spare time by assisting the workmen in the Yard. In which case it may be proved that the person who last spring lighted the fire in Massachusetts Hall was neither a criminal nor a lunatic, but a philanthropic psychologist of unusually far and reaching vision...
Shortly after Dr. Atwood became President (Feb., 1921), he discontinued the Departments of Biology and Mathematics, reduced the staffs in Psychology and Sociology, restricted other Departments, brought Geography to the centre of the stage. Under his predecessor, the late G. Stanley Hall, famed psychologist, Clark's graduate schools had achieved international prestige and the university was known for its co-operative spirit of scientific research. Now, however, that seems all changed. Members of the faculty have been steadily resigning, and a year ago the head of the Physics Department, Dr. Arthur G. Webster, committed suicide after stating that his work...
...Pupil of Wilhelm Wundt, he caught the physiological genius of that great founder, and built his theory strictly on the neurological basis of the human body. Hall's wide-ranging, liberal and incisive intelligence took him into many special fields. It made him the dean of the genetic psychologists, with a sympathetic and encyclopedic knowledge of infancy and adolescence (the subject of his greatest work). It distinguished him in the comparative psychology of animals. He was the first American psychologist to give any credit to psychoanalysis, and though always critical of its pretensions, he brought it sharply...