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...student group, the Harvard Law Students Guild (HLSC), was organized in September primarily by second-year law students, Stephen Bachmann and Philip McClelland, for law students who agreed with the aims...
...McClelland said yesterday that the HLSG has a dual nature: it is a group for progressive political action, and it provides a means for social interaction among law students...
Actual involvement with people who have personality problems gives a researcher a vital sensitivity to the nature of those problems, since the real significance of abstract character traits only comes alive in direct encounters between people. As David McClelland, professor of Psychology, says, "Clinical psychology helps keep personality psychology honest. It keeps psychologists' noses buried in real, live people instead of abstractions, pigeons and tests...
ANOTHER sign of the rockiness of the marriage between research and practical work in Harvard's clinical program was the unsuccessful ten-year search for a person with top clinical and research credentials to lead the program. McClelland, then a teacher in the program, conducted the frustrating search. Two of his choices were turned down by President Pusey's ad hoc committee on the appointment. Although both men were fine clinicians and good scholars, their research credentials did not satisfy the President's committee. Finally in 1966 McClelland and the committee agreed on Professor Norman Garmizey of the University...
Garmizey's rejection marked the end of the futile hunt for the mythical leader who would be both a topflight clinician and, in Harvard tradition, the best scholar available. McClelland gave up his attempt to find a person who would satisfy the professional requirements of the American Psychologyical Association (APA) and the NIMH and also the academic requirements of the Social Relations Department and the President's ad hoc committee...