University departments
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
A letter from Professor Bartlett to the Vice-Chancellor and the Council of the Senate, 22nd February 1937, 19370222
This letter discusses proposals for extending the Department and allocating research grants with support from Rockefeller. Detailed funding plans are explored.
A memo from the Board for Moral Sciences urging the Senate to consider the need for accommodation for the Department of Experimental Psychology
The memo draws attention to the present inadequate accommodation in Mill Lane.
Appeal for a new School of Physiology, issued by the Cambridge University Association, 1912-02
The document mentions that the Worshipful Company of Drapers are funding the building and equipping of the Physiology School, whereas the Department of Experimental Psychology is being funded by private donors. An itemisation of expenses is given at the end of the document.
'Appeal for Funds to Equip the Proposed Psychological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge'
Growth of the Psychology Department, 1925 - 1939
Handwritten notes for the piece about the new Psychological Laboratory, outlining the history of the department
This piece describes the new building being developed for the Psychology Laboratory, its layout and how it is being funded and supported.
Invitation to C. S. Myers to attend the opening of the New School of Physiology on 9 June 1914
Letter from Myers to Hartridge from Somerset about the date of a Board meeting, 19200613
Writing from Birchwood, Porlock, Somerset, Myers explains that he would rather not make the journey to Cambridge for a Board meeting before the start of the Michaelmas term. He requests that the meeting be deferred till October, by which time the University will have decided whether it is possible for him to come into residence.
Letter from the Secretary of the Appointments Committee to the Board asking about number of lecturers and demonstrators in the Department, 19251222
Letter to F. Bartlett from Charles Fox about more recognition for Educational Psychology as an academic subject, 19260601
Fox asserts that the question of establishing a lectureship in Educational Psychology should be taken further. He says that a formal protest should be made to the Appointments Committee about the fact that a lectureship in Educational Psychology has not yet been set up.
'Memorandum from the Board of Psychological Studies to the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge'
The Board begs leave to submit a report requesting the establishment of several new posts to meet the demand for study in Psychology. Number of students currently attending courses in the last year (the document is undated) amounted to between 70 and 80, whereas there is only accommodation for about 50 with present facilities.
Memorandum from the General Board of Studies to the Special Boards of Study with reference to appointments to lectureships and demonstratorships, 19251202
'Minutes of the Psychological Laboratory Syndicate', 19100217 - 19131201
Minutes, reports and notices of the Psychological Laboratory Syndicate (then the Board of Psychological Studies), 1910 - 1926
Notice of a course of lectures to be given by Dr Myers in General and Experimental Psychology during Michaelmas term, 1914, 19140530
These lectures were intended for medical students and candidates for Part I of the Diploma in Psychological Medicine.
'Presentation of the School of Physiology by the Worshipful Company of Drapers and its Opening by H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught', 19140609
This booklet contains a short history of experimental science in Cambridge going back to 1702, and includes plates illustrating the new buildings and floor plans of the room lay-outs.
Report by the Director, 1914
The report announces that planned courses of lectures have had to be cancelled and that it has been impossible to start a course in Psychology that year. However, a Mr Fox, Lecturer at the Training College for Schoolmasters, has been able to conduct a class in Educational Psychology.
Report of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology Syndicate, 2 February 1911, 19110202
Scheme of the proposed Psychological Laboratory presented to the Psychological Laboratory Syndicate, 191002
Estimates of the amount of space (given in square feet) for the different sections of the Laboratory are listed. The total area required is estimated as 1320 square feet, and this includes a demonstrator's room, an animal room, a dark room, a sound-proofed room and various other spaces.
Speech about 'The New Psychological Laboratory at Cambridge', tracing the history of psychological research in Cambridge
Statement of the case for the establishment of a laboratory for Experimental Psychology , 1908-12
'The Minute Book of the Board of Psychological Studies', 19201025 - 19261018
'The New Psychological Laboratory', 19121107
This piece describes the new building being developed for the Psychology Laboratory, its layout and how it is being funded and supported.
'The New Psychological Laboratory', 19130522
Xerox copy of the 'Bequest by the late Dr MacCurdy' published in the 'Cambridge University Reporter', 19471111
The Vice-Chancellor publishes extracts from the will of the late Dr MacCurdy whereby a bequest is made for the 'provision and maintenance of a psychopathological library in the University of Cambridge'.