News
Garber Announces Advisory Committee for Harvard Law School Dean Search
News
First Harvard Prize Book in Kosovo Established by Harvard Alumni
News
Ryan Murdock ’25 Remembered as Dedicated Advocate and Caring Friend
News
Harvard Faculty Appeal Temporary Suspensions From Widener Library
News
Man Who Managed Clients for High-End Cambridge Brothel Network Pleads Guilty
Three drawings in the magazine The New Yorker, showing a baby in a pen, a clerk in a cashier's cage, and a prisoner behind the bars were responsible for the introduction of cartoons into a psychology course of Dr. F. L. Wells, instructor of Experimental Psychopathology, it was learned yesterday in an interview at the Psychopathic Hospital.
With permission already granted to reproduce any clipping from the magazine that he wants, Dr. Wells will soon be illustrating his lectures with lantern slides of drawings by Peter Arno, I. Klein, and Otto Soglow. At present Dr. Wells has some 30 odd cartoons which have been carefully selected to explain to his class various psychological reactions in the easiest and quickest manner possible.
A sketch of a tardy couple on a wharf watching a liner disappear on the horizon with the caption below "Don't just stand there. De Something!" Dr. Wells says is a perfect illustration of one of the many things that drives people insane. The picture of a fireman training a great stream of water on a blazing building and exclaiming "Geez, I hope the chief is watching," is the best medium that there is to show an inexperienced student that every individual on earth desires praise.
Other phases in the study of psychology which Dr. Wells has found in abundance among the pages of The New Yorker, and a similar German magazine called Simplicissimus, are nauseaism, symbolism, marriage, and social adjustments, as well as perversions, thought patterns, and sublimation.
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.