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...spacious office in the basement of Memorial Hall, Boring now works regularly at the desk which used to belong to Hugo Munsterberg, the German psychologist whom James brought to Harvard in 1892. In the files along one wall are one hundred thousand letters from and to psychologists all over the world: "I'm just too lazy to throw them out," Boring says...
James himself did not seek detailed experimental corroboration. Though he was instrumental in establishing one of the first psychology laboratories in the world, he quickly became bored with it. Eventually he recruited Munsterberg from Germany to take over the experimentation...
...Eliot the University had clearly assumed the status of a national school; the celebrities, more often than in the Civil War era, actually taught courses. This period was especially a golden age for the philosophy department. At one time James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, George Herbert Palmer, and Hugo Munsterberg all held appointments. Darwin, Hegel, and Helmholtz had progressively gained influence through the intervening years. On the other hand, operationalism, behaviorism, and the Freud Bomb had not yet burst upon the American scene...
...other hand, the young psychologist Hugo Munsterberg, James' assistant, was the one who called Gertrude his ideal student. She participated animatedly in his seminars, as well as in those of George Santayana, who gave her new reading in the English philosophers. Other subjects she took included history, modern languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and zoology. "I came out of the nineteenth century," she wrote, "you had to be interested in evolution. I liked thinking.... I liked looking at everyone and talking and listening...
...existence, the Psychological Laboratory has experienced and endured continual relocation and change. President Pusey's Program for Harvard College may lead to the most far-reaching change of all sometime in the near future. It may not be an easy change, but it should be worth it.Professor HUGO von MUNSTERBERG, at the head of the table, leads his students in a psychological chain-reaction experiment at the Dane Hall laboratory during the fall of 1892. In the background can be seen some of the early equipment with which James and Munsterberg provided the laboratory...