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Reports on the call for papers to be presented at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Second Conference on Firesafety Design in the 21st Century. When the conference is expected to take place in Worcester, Massachusetts; Focus of the conference; Suggested topics to be discussed at the conference; Contact point for details on the conference.

Clark psychology in the post&shyHallian era has attracted little attention from scholars. The only general account, Carl Murchison's ‘Recollections of a Magic Decade at Clark’ (1959), is both partisan and limited in scope. This paper examines the ‘second cycle’ of the Clark department in a period of unusual productivity in research, publication and graduate training from the mid-twenties to the mid-thirties, as well as the internal tensions and constraints that led the department to self-destruct in 1936 and lose its scholarly leadership and professional visibility until the post-World War II era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper identifies the institutional character of pre-1920 psychology at Clark University with founding President G. Stanley Hall's active ‘patronage’ of ‘outsiders,’ argues that the origins of this institutional character can be found in Hall's own personal character and temperament, and traces the influence of this institutional character through much of the psychology done at Clark before 1920. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A first cooperative research program in the developmental psychology was established in the Clark questionnaire studies. The program was not meant to be free­standing but to elaborate an evolutionary conception of child development synthesized from findings of several scientific fields. The short­lived program had some serious faults, but an examination of its research papers suggests that it produced some worthwhile work. The child­study researchers gathered information about children's social and emotional reactions in everyday settings; one or two of their studies were replicated; they found pattern and order; they elaborated a meaningful social­biological view of child development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Describes the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts' Pre Qualifying Projects degree course, designed to develop student communication skills in technical presentations. Student presentation of forensic papers and case studies; Aims of the project; Description; Areas of study in the presented papers.

The author recalls his days as a graduate student under G. Stanley Hall at Clark University, describing the state of psychology in those early years, his impressions of Hall, and the effect the latter had on his lifework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides an overview of the psychology department at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Composition of the university's psychology department; Photograph of the staff of the Clark's psychology department; Graduate students who led mental measurement and child psychology at the university.

The article presents the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Hall of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 24, 1894. A list of presiding members is included. The results of society office elections are given. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Analysis of the Pictorial Text Inscribed on two Palenque Tablets," by Philipp J. J. Valentini, and "The Rival Claimants for North America 1497-1755," by Justin Winsor.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 21, 1953. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "American Literature: The First Seventy-Five Years," and "Calvin Coolidge: Twenty Years After."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 16, 1946. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "A New England Friendship: John Adams and Henry Knox" and "Peter Martyr and his Works."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 17, 1945. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The presentations given at the meeting are also listed, including the paper "Varnum's Ministerial Oppression: A Revolutionary Drama."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 21, 1942. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including discussion of the National Geographic Society, 18th-century landscape painters, and the Louisiana Purchase.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 15, 1941. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Horatio Gates Spafford and His Historical Activities" and "The Press in the New England Town."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 16, 1940. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Jean Lafitte in the War of 1812," "John Watson: Painter, Merchant, and Capitalist."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 17, 1934. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Ebenezer Cooke and the Maryland Muse" and "The Libraries of the Presidents."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 18, 1933. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "The Journal of a Belated Puritan, 1835-1853," "William Gaston, an Old-Fashioned Federalist," and "Champlain and his Landings at Cape Ann."

This paper reexamines the conventional wisdom concerning the Midwestern origins of American academic geography at the doctoral level. Prosopographic analysis of 34 Ph.D.s awarded in geography between 1893 and 1921 finds that these were largely earned in Eastern universities, and that both Eastern and Midwestern institutions awarding doctorates in the field drew students primarily from the home region. By contrast, prosopographic examination of a second and later group, the faculty and graduate students at Clark University between 1921 and 1946, discloses an interregional pattern of recruitment closely tied to Midwestern institutions. Paradoxically, though sited in an Eastern university, early Clark geography was substantially Midwestern in personnel and program. Further institutional and prosopographic study of the early sites of graduate study is needed to reveal the complexity of American academic geography in its formative period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports how Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts addressed the challenges on energy conservation. Chronological periods that characterized the university's energy experience; Details on the university's energy policy; International consensus on energy and climate change. INSETS: Clark University in Brief;Science, Technology, and Society: A 30-Year Energy Experiment.

Looks at the experimental laboratory-based, process-oriented chemistry curriculum at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Rationale for a guided instructional format; Organization of a discovery exercise; Representative exercise; Observed benefits.

Presents the author's experience with the women's studies doctoral training program at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. History of the program; Reasons for entering school; Challenges offered by the program; Interdisciplinarity of the degree.

Studies ethnic consciousness among the Irish community in Worcester, Massachusetts between 1880 and 1905. History of the Irish community in Worcester; Impact of generational change and environmental conditions on ethnic consciousness; National and international movements that affected Irish ethnic allegiances in Worcester; Critical changes that took place among the Irish people of Worcester in the late 1880s and 1890s.

Describes the Children's Art and Recreation Experience (C.A.R.E.) Program, a social service project of the Bancroft School in Worcester, Massachusetts. Pairing of high school students with elementary children who have moderate special needs; Success of the program; Schedule and activities; Forms of student involvement in the program; Comments by several Bancroft students regarding the program.

Presents the results of an experiment carried out by the authors to determine what makes economics students at the College of the Holy Cross different from other students. Profession of a different way of understanding the world; Tendency for free riding; Talent at self-interested calculation; Comparison of economists' sentiments with those of other people.

Heinz Werner, a comparative­developmental psychologist who had emigrated from Europe in 1933, came to Clark in 1947, when the once-renowned psychology department was at a low ebb. Under Werner's leadership, the department reestablished its reputation a center of research and graduate training. It is suggested that Werner's vision of psychology and graduate education led him to form a department that had a unique perspective and was, in many respects, ahead of its time. The question of Werner's position in relation to the mainstream is considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]