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Early in 1892 Dr. Hugo Munsterberg, a noted German psychologist, was appointed professor of Experimental Psychology and Director of the newly-founded Psychological Laboratory. Munsterberg added a considerable amount of German equipment to the laboratory and expanded its activities to include research on animals, making use of a supply of chickens which James kept in the basement of his house on Irving Place...
After Emerson Hall was constructed in 1906, Munsterberg moved his equipment from Dane to the third floor of Emerson where an animal research room and several darkrooms for visual experiments had been provided. This was the first laboratory in this country ever to be designed and built specifically for psychological research...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell was no orthodox conservative. He was also damned for refusing-unlike Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler-to fire an outspoken German subject, Philosopher Hugo Munsterberg, from his faculty during World War I. He likewise refused to fire radical Harold J. Laski, who sided with the Boston police strikers in 1919. Lowell opposed the strikers, but defended Laski's academic freedom...
Heading the committee is A. Jerome Himelhoch '38. The group which will look into conditions in the Garment Workers Union is comprised of Sherman J. Maisel '39, Philip Kazon '39, Hugo Munsterberg '39, and Joseph M. Periman...
...surpassed Harvard in size and approached her in endowment, but real progress has been in a different direction. The history of Harvard's last century lies in George Herbert Palmer's translation of the "Odyssey," in the Nobel prize of Professor Richards, in the psychology of William James and Munsterberg, in the lectures of Professor Kittredge, and in President Lowell's fight for academic freedom...