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Research and teaching in abnormal personality began at Harvard in 1927 when the late Morton Prince, professor of Social Ethics, and Henry Murray '15, professor emeritus of Psychology, then a young physician, set up the Harvard Student Clinic on Plympton Street. The Plympton Clinic was at first primarily a center for personality research. However, in 1946 the Veterans' Administration, faced with thousands of returning shell-shocked G.I.s began to fund graduate programs in university psychology departments to train non-medical psychotherapists to cope with the needs of these veterans. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) added more money...
...Norman Watt, professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a former lecturer in the clinical psychology program at Harvard, the Social Relations Department with its strong research emphasis opposed the Boulder ideal. Despite the addition of practical training, Harvard's graduate program continued the Plympton Street Clinic's stress on research. Students did supervised fieldwork in therapy centers such as the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the Fernald State School, but they were trained mainly as scientists...
Since Grollier opened at 6 Plympton St. in 1927, it has served not only as a bookstore but also as a gathering place for Cambridge literati...
...believe the signs, Joe has opened another branch at the end of Plympton St. where the Pizza Pad used to be. However the "owner" of the second Joe's pizza swears Joe has nothing to do with the product he serves. He says that he has a "personal" arrangement with Joe whereby Joe's sign is hung over his store and an advertisement for the original Joe's pizzeria appears on his take-out boxes...
...pizza at the end of Plympton St. is a little better than the variety Joe serves up, but it smacks of his influence. Like Joe's the dough is too thin and the tomato sauce uninteresting, but the cheese here has a much more spicy taste. The prices here are the same...