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With their show about to open on the other side of Manhattan, the circus people went last week to see their pictures. Unlike Kansans, they like Curry, call his pictures "wonderful" despite a few little technical mistakes. The Codonas like the exact muscular timing of their Passing Leap. Baby Ruth likes the baby blue of her eyes against her light pink dress, the orange-red tent curtains and blue...
Whom asked to compare the drawings of the two artists Durer and Holbein the Younger, Dr. Kuhn said that in his opinion Holbein's portraits were completely objective, very exact, and distinctly unemotional, whereas Durer always attempted to endow his subject with a personal touch, almost an appearance of pent-up emotion...
...insane. More advanced courses are offered in this subject a the Boston Psychopathic Hospital by psychiatrists from the Medical School. Social Psychology and the Psychology of Personality are taken up from the point of view of the sociologist as sell as that of the psychologist. As for the more exact departments of psychology, there are courses in Statistical Method, which is highly mathematical, in Experimental Psychology with laboratory work, and in psychophysiology. It can be seen from the foregoing remarks that a number of courses in other fields must be related to Psychology. Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, parts of Biology...
Psychology may claim as its best point its informality and breadth. Some of its departments are far nearer philosophy than science; others vie with the most exact of the sciences in accuracy. The field is not difficult; its material is of cultural and academic, rather than of practical value, dealing with principles and schools of thought, rather than with the application of these principles. It attempts to give the student some insight into the workings of the mind, both human and animal, an insight which, although it may or may not be of assistance in attaining one's first million...
President Roosevelt adopted the three Hoover categories of news, and did not promise to answer all questions. But he limited his audience strictly to the regular White House corps; and he permitted quotation only of his exact words, as recorded by the stenographers. The complete transcript of every press conference will be kept, said the President, because he does not want to revive the "Ananias Club." as Theodore Roosevelt called White House visitors whom he had to turnquote...