William T. Grant, the dime store tycoon, bestowed upon Dr. Arlie Bock of the Harvard Hygiene Department a substantial allocation to study "normal" Harvard undergraduates for the rest of their lives. ...was born the Grant Study of Adult Development, which continues to this day. According to Michael Gross and Jeffrey Cruikshank, "Bock evidently hoped that the evils of war and depression could be avoided in part through a better understanding...of these 'normal' young men. ...in 2003, echoing Arlie Bock 65 years earlier, Vaillant declared: "Too often psychiatry has been preoccupied only with mental illness...it is important for psychia- try...to provide precise definitions and measures of positive mental health" (Vaillant, 2003, pp. 1373-1374). Students were not chosen for the Study if they had medical problems such as diabetes, polio, a heart disease or "some clearly demonstrable maladjustment or particular vulnerability to their environment" (Heath, 1945, p. 111).