Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Professor Lange respects his own conclusions, says that so far as the causes of crime are concerned, "inherited tendencies play a predominant part. . . . Heredity does play a role of paramount importance in making the criminal; certainly a far greater role than many are prepared to admit." But he thinks "environmental influences are of particular importance for a criminal because his very nature includes a far greater amount of suggestibility than the average man. In this way he often becomes a helpless victim of any environment in which he happens to find himself...
Gradually, it may be seen, that the acquisition of culture is becoming less dependent on the stiff pedagogy of the lecture platform and assuming a more informal, palatable shape. It has been realized that a pleasant environment conduces both to easier and more profitable study. This fine arts counterpart of...
Dr. Meredith of Tufts and Jackson Colleges said yesterday that college failures are traceable to a deficient personality quotient, rather than to a lack of intelligence. Certainly the entrance examinations have weeded out a major portion of the intellectually unfit; the psychologic maladjustments quite common to the Freshman year are...
"Roles of the Factors of Heredity and Environment." Professor Sorokin, Sever B.
In Arizona. Last year Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) found the shattered fragments of a fossil reptile in Arizona. He carefully preserved each piece. But when he tried to put his little 3-ft. reptile together, he found many of the fragments missing. He recognized...