Excerpt from Confessions of a Psychologist, Vol. 1
In 1880 I undertook, with a temerity which now fills me with amazement, to represent all the departments I was able in the field of psychology and pedagogy, which was the title of my chair, at the Johns Hopkins University. As there had previously been no stated work there, save only that of occasional lectures in the whole field, and special courses by Professor Geo. S. Morris, the first American scholar to attain eminence in the history of philosophy, and Charles S. Pierce, one of the most original and to me inspiring masters of those who know, I had carte-blanche in a free domain, and it seemed best at first to make some sacrifice of depth and thoroughness to range and extent, and to lecture on the general history of philosophy and ethics from the Greeks down to the close of German idealism, in which I had years before served my academic apprenticeship of three years of study in Europe; to amplify my former Harvard courses on contemporary philosophy; to cover the whole field of psychology, old and new, from a second three years' study of which latter in Germany I had just returned ; to give a weekly course in the history of education and another in the applications of philosophy and psychology to it. In addition to this, a few years later, circumstances beyond my control, made it necessary for me to become the responsible head at the University of the Baltimore City Hospital for the Insane, at Bay View, and to appoint the head of it from among the medical attendants upon my lectures, and to report upon the work, to visit and conduct weekly clinics in the wards a part of the year. The traditions and spirit of the University then strongly inclined to the lecture system almost exclusively, and I found myself compelled to devote my entire time and energy, especially for the first few years, to as diligent a cram as perhaps any one ever undertook. It was during this period that I gradually drifted to the invention, and more often the adoption, upon suggestions from others of methods to which I have steadfastly adhered for twenty years, the description of which, in the light of their accumulated results, may be helpful to instructors younger than myself, although some, if not most of them, may be so only in the way of warning.
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