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...Dorothea Dix (credited with founding or improving 32 mental hospitals) the greatest energy. Better known to present-day readers is Clifford Beers, whose autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, published in 1908, created a sensation by exposing his typically brutal treatment in private, endowed and State hospitals during a three-year stay. On the crest of the ensuing public indignation was launched the modern mental hygiene movement, which during the World War received an impetus like neurology in the Civil War. When IQ tests tried out on the Army revealed that nearly half of the U. S. population was mentally...
...airplane crashes focused attention on radio beams, direction finders, loop antennae, etc., etc. (TIME, Jan. 25), Vincent Bendix decided to capitalize on it by amalgamating his radio interests into Bendix Radio Corp., biggest concern of its kind in the world. He bought 100 acres at Teterboro and took a three-year option on Teterboro Airport where he plans a $3,000,000 "aviation city" to manufacture present Bendix aviation products and develop new ones, such as blind landing systems, for which there is vital need. Some 500 men will soon start work on the site, 20 minutes from Manhattan across...
...following were advanced from one-year appointments to three-year appointments: Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr., Instructor in Mineralogy; Robert K. Merton, Instructor in Sociology and Tutor in the Division of Sociology; Arthur C. Comey '07, Associate Professor of Regional Planning; Edwin Mims, Jr., Instructor in Government and Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics; Sterling Dow '25, Instructor in History and Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics; Alden B. Greninger, Instructor in Metallurgy; and Ralph R. Hultgren, Instructor in Metallurgy...
...contract expires in June. Last week the Federation received two more jolts, from Harvard. Its vice president, John Raymond Walsh, and the secretary of its Harvard unit, Alan Richardson Sweezy, were informed that when their contracts expire in June, both will receive "two-year concluding contracts" instead of three-year renewals. In union language there was no doubt that Unionists Walsh and Sweezy, like Unionist Davis, were being fired. Harvard hastened to issue a statement explaining that the "cases present no unusual features; decisions . . . have been made solely on grounds of teaching capacity and scholarly ability." Skeptical friends of Instructors...
Authorities consider the three-year plan an experiment. Dean Hudnut has indicated that the appropriation may be increased if interest warrants it. Members of the faculty of the school are doubtful about the number of students who will be attracted to city planning next fall, because no gnage of popularity on the basis of previous years is available. The school, an offshoot of the Department of Landscape Architecture, was first set up as a separate department seven years ago, financed by Rockefeller money. When this money was no longer available, the school went into a scholarly hibernation during which...