Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Daniel 12:4<\/i><\/p>\n
5927<\/b> Multi-Area Psychology Today<\/b><\/p>\n
Thirty years ago in one American university, the study of psychology was confined to a single course taught in the philosophy department. Today a student who wants to pursue psychology at that university can choose from three curricular tracks: clinical, experimental, or educational psychology. <\/p>\n
Within each there are a host of subdisciplines, such as learning theory, abnormal development, personality, theory, animal psychology, physiological psychology, and social psychology. Similar patterns of \u201cmushrooming,\u201d specialization, and diversification can be seen in the development of other \u201csocial sciences,\u201d such as political science and sociology. <\/p>\n
\u2014Richard J. Mouw<\/p>\n
5928<\/b> Surgeons Need Not Be Doctors<\/b><\/p>\n
London (The Observer<\/i>)\u2014Surgeons may not need to be medically qualified, according to Dr. Stanley Feldman, a consultant anaesthetist at the Westminster Hospital, London. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo one planning a surgical service today would choose to train a doctor, subject him to an appreciation of scientific discipline, steep him in medical knowledge and clinical acumen, inculcate a critical attitude towards therapy, and then judge his training by his ability to perform petit point needlework,\u201d says Dr. Feldman in the magazine World Medicine<\/i>. <\/p>\n
No other profession makes the mistake of expecting the designer to be judged by his ability as a craftsman. The architect plans and the craftsman follows his plans. On a similar basis, says Dr. Feldman, physicians should make diagnoses and then call on the consummate craftsman\u2019s skill of the surgeon. <\/p>\n
The best surgeons in the world were inundated with commissions like truly great creative artists. Why should they also have had to study complicated metabolic pathways, consider the role of the recticular activating system, or know in detail the life cycle of the liver fluke? <\/p>\n
As the science of medicine evolves, the gap between surgeon and physician would inevitably increase \u201cuntil it is exceedingly difficult for any single individual to encompass both virtues.\u201d Particular examples were micro-surgery, cardiac and ophthalmic surgery, and some forms of cosmetic surgery. <\/p>\n
He sketches out a new system of training which would train people specifically for surgery \u201cas were the barber surgeons of all.\u201d They would not perform on patients until they had several years practicing on simulated tissue material and animals. <\/p>\n
The result, he concludes, would be \u201ca renaissance of true surgical art.\u201d Microsurgery would become commonplace and many new operations would be devised. <\/p>\n
5929<\/b> A Lifetime To Greek Nouns<\/b><\/p>\n
I read the other day of a German scholar who gave his entire attention for years to Greek nouns and expressed regret on his deathbed that he had not specialized more strictly by devoting his whole life to the study of the dative case. <\/p>\n
5930<\/b> On Mathematician\u2019s Own Terms <\/b><\/p>\n
An outstanding mathematics student was walking from the campus when a professor was struck by a hit-and-run autoist. The student barely was able to catch a glimpse of the departing vehicle, but when he was questioned in the dean\u2019s office he offered the license number of the car and insisted he was positive of the matter. \u201cBut how can you be so sure?\u201d a detective asked. <\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it\u2019s true that I barely saw the license plate at a distant angle,\u201d explained the genius. \u201cBut I recalled that if it were multiplied by itself the cube root of the product would be equal to the sum of the digits reversed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Lerald Lieberman<\/p>\n
5931<\/b> Doctor\u2019s View Of Picture<\/b><\/p>\n
Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of telegraphy, was an eminent painter in his earlier years. He once painted a picture of a man in the throes of death and asked a physician friend to examine it. <\/p>\n
\u201cWell?\u201d Morse inquired after the doctor had examined the picture. <\/p>\n
The physician removed his glasses, turned to Morse and exclaimed, \u201cMalaria!\u201d<\/p>\n
5932<\/b> \u201cThe Pharaoh\u201d In Museum<\/b><\/p>\n
Through the years, Vienna\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts has had its share of eccentrics. <\/p>\n
Perhaps the oddest museum character of all was an aged citizen known affectionately as \u201cThe Pharaoh.\u201d For nearly 30 years he used to sit at the entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts, waiting to take visitors around the miles of halls and corridors. His specialty was Egyptian art, and his knowledge was so staggering that tourists used to write to the curator praising \u201cyour marvelous guide.\u201d<\/p>\n
Very few visitors were aware that he had no affiliation with the museum at all. Even professional Egyptologists who came to visit would often consult him of matters that confounded them. When \u201cThe Pharaoh\u201d died, his secret came out\u2014the greatest expert on Egypt have never been to Egypt at all. <\/p>\n
\u2014The Prairie Overcomer<\/i><\/p>\n
5933<\/b> To Each His Wages<\/b><\/p>\n
The famous 18th-century soprano, Gabriella, was once summoned to sing before Catherine the Great of Russia. After her arrival in St. Petersburg, she was asked by the Empress her fee for entertaining the Court with a few songs. The soprano replied that it was five thousand ducats. <\/p>\n
\u201cFive thousand ducats!\u201d exclaimed the Empress. \u201cWhy not one of my field-marshals is paid so much!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen your Majesty had better get one of your field-marshals to sing for the company,\u201d was the singer\u2019s reply. <\/p>\n
5934<\/b> A Tune For The Picture<\/b><\/p>\n
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the poet, once asked Whistler to voice an opinion of a sketch upon which the former had been working for quite some time. <\/p>\n
Whistler suggested that it had its points and work on it should be continued. <\/p>\n
A month or so later when Whistler again visited his friend he asked Rossetti how he was getting along. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m quite pleased with the progress I\u2019m making,\u201d said Rossetti. \u201cIn fact I like it so much I\u2019ve ordered an exquisite frame for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the picture was framed Whistler again came to see it and ventured, \u201cYou\u2019ve done nothing to it since I last saw it, have you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I haven\u2019t,\u201d replied Rossetti, \u201cbut I have composed a sonnet on the subject. Here, I ll recite it for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the recitation Whistler looked up at the beautiful frame and said, \u201cPerhaps you\u2019d better replace that picture with the sonnet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Selected <\/p>\n
5935<\/b> Caruso: Only A Tenor<\/b><\/p>\n
Enrico Caruso was very proud of his talent as a cartoonist, and a compliment to his skill with the pencil gave him much more satisfaction than all the bouquets tossed to him for his remarkable voice. He was, therefore, very disappointed when Mark Twain failed to invite him to a dinner that the author once gave in New York in honor of eminent cartoonists. <\/p>\n
\u201cPerhaps,\u201d remarked Caruso plaintively, \u201che only knows me as a tenor.\u201d<\/p>\n
5936<\/b> Einstein Did Not Join Contest<\/b><\/p>\n
Einstein\u2019s remark after Scientific American<\/i> announced a $5,000 prize for the best exposition of relativity in 3,000 words:<\/p>\n
\u201cI am the only one in my entire circle of friends who is not entering. I don\u2019t believe I could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
5937<\/b> A Wolf Which Turned Doctor<\/b><\/p>\n
An ass which saw a wolf running at him, while he was grazing in a meadow, pretended to be lame. When the wolf came up and asked what made him lame, he said that he had trodden on a thorn in jumping over a fence, and advised the wolf to pull it out before eating him, so that it would not prick its mouth. The wolf fell into the trap and lifted up the ass\u2019 foot. While it was intently examining the hoof the ass kicked it in the mouth and knocked out its teeth. \u201cI have got what I deserved,\u201d said the wolf in this sorry plight. \u201cMy father taught me the trade of a butcher, and I had no business to meddle with doctoring.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Fables of Aesop<\/i><\/p>\n
5938<\/b> Prime Minister And Boatman<\/b><\/p>\n
The Prime Minister of Liang died. When Huitze heard this he was in such a hurry to get to Liang that he missed his step in the ferryboat and fell into the river. He was rescued by the boatman, who asked him, \u201cWhy are you in such a hurry?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no prime minister in Liang now,\u201d he answered. \u201cI am anxious to go and be its prime minister.\u201d<\/p>\n
The boatman said, \u201cYou cannot even manage yourself in the boat\u2014if it were not for me you would be drowned\u2014how could you expect to be prime minister of Liang?\u201d<\/p>\n
Huitze replied, \u201cHere in the boat, I am not as good as you. But in governing the land and upholding society, compared to me, you are like a blind dog.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Chinese Humor<\/p>\n
5939<\/b> Epigram On Small Things<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Printed notice in a New York Taxicab: \u201cPlease do not discuss politics with me. My specialty is astrophysics.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Guests of honor at a luncheon included Carl Sandburg and a general. The master of ceremonies announced: \u201cI now give you Carl Sandburg, who will make up some poetry for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sandburg rose, but all he said was, \u201cI yield to the general. He will fire a cannon.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2014Atlanta Constitution<\/i><\/p>\n
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