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Mirror of New England: The early years of psychology at Colorado College
Author(s) -
Freed Douglas W.,
Roberts Carl L.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198801)24:1<46::aid-jhbs2300240111>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - liberal arts education , new england , the arts , sociology , set (abstract data type) , history , media studies , political science , higher education , law , politics , computer science , programming language
In its beginning in 1874 Colorado College set itself against its region. An early president saw conscienceless citizens on the one hand and papists or Mormons on the other. The college, with its Congregational principles and the liberal arts tradition of the New England colleges, was established to provide Christian leadership for these unfortunates. Psychology, as it emerged in the 1880s, reflected the same influences as did the college as a whole. Theologian presidents first taught it as a sideline and, when psychologists came in the 1890s, they were trained in the New England tradition of the early presidents, though the religious pretensions quickly disappeared. They set the discipline at Colorado College on the path that it follows today: commitment to the liberal arts and sciences.