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J. H. Tanner psychology lectures by Professor Jacob Gould Schurman

Collection — manuscript box: 47 - folder 1

Identifier: 37-5-3959m

Scope and content

Notebook of lecture notes taken during Professor Jacob Gould Schurman's seven lectures on psychology, April 6th to May 2, 1889. Lecture I records Schurman's belief that psychology is "the science of the mind."

Dates

1889.

Creator

Tanner, J. H. (John Henry), 1861- (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Class of 1891, Professor of Mathematics at Cornell. After graduating, John Tanner served as an instructor in mathematics at Cornell and studied at Göttingen from 1894-1896. He was a member of Delta Upsilon. Also in 1894, he was appointed as assistant professor at Cornell. He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 1901. In 1904, he became a full professor, a position he held until his retirement in 1926. He served as secretary of the faculty of College of Arts and Sciences from 1897-1903 and was a life member of the American Mathematical Society, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, and of Sigma Xi. He authored several textbooks on algebra and analytical geometry.