Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading universities and its leading college for training teachers, which face each other across Hillsboro Ave. in Nashville, Tenn., each installed a new chief. Vanderbilt University took as its third chancellor, big, venturesome Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, 46. George Peabody College for Teachers took its fifth president, scholarly Psychologist Sidney Clarence Garrison, 50. All week the two campuses shone with such a collection of academic finery as the South had not seen in decades. From rostra thundered Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds, Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General Thomas Parran, American...
...when two English professors. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, wrote a book called The Meaning QJ Meaning, followed by Ogden's invention of an 850-word vocabulary called Basic English. Indicative of the complexity of semantics is the fact that while Ogden is an orthologist and psychologist and Richards is an esthetician, important contributions have been made by a Polish mathematician, Count Alfred Korzybski, and a Harvard physicist, Percy Williams Bridgman. Semantics ranges from the equator of Basic English through the lush tropics of political bunkum to the North Pole of James Joyce's word-coining...
Builder. Psychologist Johnson O'Connor, who started with astronomical and mathematical research and was a metallurgist before he became interested in industrial personnel problems, is director of the "Human Engineering Laboratory" in Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken. N. J. From testing 20,000 students, businessmen, professional workers, people in all walks of life, he has concluded that "an extensive knowledge of the exact meanings of English words accompanies outstanding success in this country more often than any other single characteristic which the Human Engineering Laboratory has been able to isolate and measure." His laboratory has just published the Johnson...
Having spent nearly a lifetime testing mankind to see what makes the cranial wheels go round, Psychologist Thorndike two years ago began to test U. S. cities to see which ones were fit for mankind to live in. So important did the Carnegie Corp. consider this study that it gave $100,000 to finance it. Dr. Thorndike and his collaborator, Dr. Ella Woodyard, selected 117 middle-sized cities, gathered data about them on some 120 traits. From these he picked 23 items which he thought most people would agree were attributes of a good town-a low death rate, high...
...instincts of chicks in his college lodgings in 1896. His landlady ousted his incubator as a fire hazard. So he moved it to the basement in the house of his teacher, a certain professor named William James. Next year the lad arrived at Columbia University to study under famed Psychologist J. McKean Cattell. Carrying two cages with the "most educated hens in the world," he sat down to rest on the steps of Seth Low Hall. A porter chased him away...