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Metropolitan conf of State and city park authorities presents city park program involving spending of $30,000,000 to Advisory Com, urges city-wide assessment
Dr W McGovern missing, set out to explore headwaters of Amazon
Orion (collier) hull buckled and twisted in storm, may prove clue to disappearance in 1918 of sister ship, Cyclops
Suggests that Belgian workers contribute half hour's labor each week, for which employers will pay overtime wages directly to State, to repay Belgian loan being negotiated in N Y
1925Albert Bandura, Canadian-American psychologist and academic (died 2021)[†]
Albert Bandura was a Canadian-American psychologist and professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University, who contributed to the fields of education and to the fields of psychology, e.g. social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology, and influenced the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. Bandura also is known as the originator of the social learning theory, the social cognitive theory, and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and was responsible for the theoretically influential Bobo doll experiment (1961), which demonstrated the conceptual validity of observational learning, wherein children would watch and observe an adult beat a doll, and, having learned through observation, the children then beat a Bobo doll.