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James Edwin Lough was a pioneering American psychologist, who taught at Harvard while studying for his doctorate (received 1898), and at the State Normal School in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (1897-1901), before settling in to a career as Professor of Experimental Psychology at New York University (1901 on). Among his numerous professional contributions were 'Intensity of sensation' (1896) and other articles in Psychological Review, and a 'Syllabus of psychology for teachers' (1901). He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychological Association.

The Lough Papers includes approximately 250 letters between Lough and his fiancee, Dorothy Albonetta Bailey, of Boston. The great majority were written between 1899 and 1901, when Lough was working as a professor in Oshkosh. The letters are primarily personal in nature, and chart the course of the couple's relationship through the period of their separation, and they provide an unsually dense coverage for the period. Lough's letters include occasional commentary on his new career as a psychologist, his teaching, and writing, and of his life as a junior faculty member.

M-2808.8

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Psychologists
State Normal School of Wisconsin--Faculty

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