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9. Paul A. Freund, “The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties,” Vanderbilt Law
Review 4 (1950–1951): 533ff.; on p. 539.
10. “Joke,” G. P. Krapp to JMC, 13 May 1916; “Set back,” William A. Dunning to
JMC, 15 May 1916; JMC papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (hereafter LoC).
11. Frederick J. E. Woodbridge (hereafter FJEW) to ERAS, 28 March 1917, ERAS
papers, CUA.
12. ERAS to JMC, 18 June 1917, JMC papers, CUA.
13. “Academic Freedom at Columbia,” editorial note, New-York Tribune, undated
clipping, JMC papers, LoC. Cf. “Academic Freedom Not Involved,” Philadelphia Public
Ledger, 3 October 1917, John B. Pine collection, Worcester, MA.
14. See Michael M. Sokal, “‘Micro-History’ and the History of Psychology: ‘Thick
Description’ and ‘The Fine Texture of the Past’,” in Thick Description and Fine Texture:
Studies in the History of Psychology, edited by David B. Baker (Akron, OH: University
of Akron Press, 2003), pp. 1–18, 181–183. Sokal, “The Gestalt Psychologists in Behaviorist
America,” American Historical Review 89 (1984): 1240–1263, illustrates the value
of this approach, and this article’s own conclusions suggest further aspects of its utility.
15. Overviews and analyses of Cattell’s life and career appear in: Sokal, “Life Span
Developmental Psychology and the History of Science,” in Beyond History of Science:
Essays in Honor of Robert E. Schofield, edited by Elizabeth Garber (Bethlehem, PA:
Lehigh University Press, 1990), pp. 67–80; Sokal, “James McKeen Cattell, Achievement
and Alienation,” in Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, vol. 6, edited by Donald A.
Dewsbury, Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., and Michael Wertheimer (Washington: American
Psychological Association, 2006), pp. 19–35.
16. JMC, “The Conceptions and Methods of Psychology,” Popular Science
Monthly (hereafter PSM) 66 (1904): 176–186; Sokal, “Scientific Biography, Cognitive
Quirks, and Laboratory Practice: James McKeen Cattell and the Course of Early American
Experimental Psychology, 1880–1904,” under review; Sokal, “James McKeen Cattell and
Mental Anthropometry: Nineteenth-Century Science and Reform and the Origins of
Psychological Testing,” in Psychological Testing and American Society, 1890–1930,
edited by Sokal (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987), pp. 21–45; Sokal
“James McKeen Cattell and American Psychology in the 1920s,” in Explorations in the
History of Psychology in the United States, edited by Josef Brozek (Lewisburg, PA:
Bucknell University Press, 1984), pp. 273–323.
17. Sokal, “Baldwin, Cattell, and the Psychological Review: A Collaboration and Its
Discontents,” History of the Human Sciences 10 (1997): 57–89; Sokal, “Science and
James McKeen Cattell,” Science 209 (4 July 1980): 43–52; Sokal, “Stargazing: James
McKeen Cattell, American Men of Science, and the Reward Structure of the American
Scientific Community, 1906–1944,” in Psychology, Science, and Human Affairs: Essays
in Honor of William Bevan, edited by Frank Kessel (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995),
pp. 64–86; Sokal, “Promoting Science in a New Century: The Middle Years of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science,” in Sally Gregory Kohlstedt,
Sokal, and Bruce V. Lewenstein, The Establishment of Science in America: 150 Years of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers
University Press, 1999), pp. 50–102.
18. JMC to Edward B. Titchener, 19 December 1903, Titchener papers, Cornell
University Archives, Ithaca, NY.
19. F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Rich Boy,” Redbook, January and February 1926. See
also Sokal, “Life Span Developmental Psychology and the History of Science.”
20. See Sokal, “‘Micro-History’ and the History of Psychology.”
21. Herbert G. Lord to ERAS, 16 June 1917, ERAS papers, CUA.
22. ERAS to Franz Boas, 2 July 1917, Boas Papers, American Philosophical
Society Library, Philadelphia.