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When we hear that a young Brazilian scientist has landed in New York who claims that by a process of blood irrigation he can revive the dead, change a negro into a white man, reduce one's necessary modicum of sleep from eight hours to one, and indefinitely prolong life, we do not know whether to be amused or amazed...
Twenty eminent psychologists from all parts of the country have recently formed what is said to be the first organization of its kind, the Psychological Corporation. This is by no means the first time that the scientist has undertaken to prove that he is a man of business, capable of extracting a livelihood from the public by across-the-counter transaction. But the work of this corporation is something new. By means of psychological tests calculated to reveal the mental capacity of a candidate for a position, it will be able to tell the business man whom to hire...
...Braithwaite of London, England, will speak on "Christian Science." Mr. Braithwaite, who will be introduced by J. C. Shoe '23, President of the Christian Society of Phillips Brooks House, is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston. All members of the University and their friends are cordiaily invited...
...shocking results of such a system, continues Professor Thorndike, are demonstrated by the scandalous fact that at Harvard As are thirty-five-times as common in Greek as in English courses. Such things must not be! Substitute for this unspeakable system the exact and definite methods of the scientist. Instead of giving a student an A or a C in a subject, give him his "A, Q,": i. e., his accomplishment quotient, which is his achievement score divided by his capacity measured in similar units. If his A, Q, is one or over, he passes: if it is below...
...most famous woman in the world, some have said, is Madame Curie, who honors the University with a visit next Monday. Partly because the world still clings to the absurd idea that any woman scientist is an extraordinary person, but chiefly because in Madame Curie it recognizes one of the foremost chemists of all time, her visit to this country has been one round of applause. We Americans have a way of exhausting our distinguished visitors with an elaborate program of events, accompanied by crowds of curious onlookers. Even the Prince of Wales, it is said, found his American tour...