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...instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts, and Sciences for 1917-18 has recently been published. Changes in the Department of Classics have been made on account of the death of Professor C. P. Parker, in the Department of Psychology on account of the death of Professor Hugo Muensterberg; leaves of absences granted to Professor F. W. Taussig '79 and Professor W. B. Munro '99 have necessitated changes in courses ordinarily given by them, and the retirement of Professor Barrett Wendell '77 has caused shifts in the English Department. The more important changes follow, but these are not final...
...professorship of experimental psychology in this University, and he began teaching here in the fall of 1892. The academic years 1895-96 and 1896-97 were spent in Freiburg again, on leave of absence, and on his return to Cambridge in 1897 he was appointed Professor of Psychology. Professor Muensterberg received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1901, LL.D. from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1904, and Litt.D. from Lafayette College in 1907. He was president of the American Psychological Association in 1898 and of the American Philosophical Association in 1908, and was a Fellow of the American...
...Muensterberg's fertility and enormous industry were conspicuous from the beginning. While still at Freiburg he published four parts of a theoretical and experimental work entitled "Beitrage zur experimentellen Psychologie," and four other volumes on psychological subjects...
...training in the new methods of experimental psychology he gave freely of time and interest, and his fertile invention supplied many and varied problems for investigation. The production of the laboratory steadily increased in volume and significance, and in 1903 a medium of publication was established under Muensterberg's direction in the "Harvard Psychological Studies." The well-planned and equipped laboratory in Emerson Hall, opened in 1905, was chiefly due to his efforts...
...latter years of his life his interest turned more and more to the applications of psychology, the practical bearings of the science on education, law, medicine and industry. To this series belong, "Psychotherapy" (1909), "Psychology and the Teacher" (1910), "Psychology and Industrial Efficiency" (1913), with many occasional publications. Muensterberg had a deep interest also in educational, social and political problems, and wrote much upon them, from "American Traits" (1901) and "Die Amerikaner" (1904), translated (1905) "The Americans," to his recent books on "The War and America," "The Peace and America," and "Tomorrow...