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Hickson, J. W. A. (Joseph William Andrew), 1873-1956
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Letter, 21 January 1922

Roback's article ["Subjective Tests vs. Objective Tests"] in Journal of Educational Psychology; Hickson's courses including one on "Nietzsche, Bergson and the Pragmatists"; Roback's employment; Roback's marriage; Gordon Laing (McGill Dean of Arts); William D. Tait; James W. Bridges; Hickson considers resigning from McGill; "mental quality" of McGill students; Bernard Bosanquet's The Meeting of Extremes in Contemporary Philosophy; books on relativity theory; Albert Einstein; Alfred N. Whitehead.

Hickson, J. W. A. (Joseph William Andrew), 1873-1956

Letter, 13 May 1914

Bertrand Russell; Ernest Rutherford's lecture at McGill; William D. Tait; McGill philosophy department; William Caldwell's [Pragmatism and Idealism]; Hugo Münsterberg's Psychology and Social Sanity.

Hickson, J. W. A. (Joseph William Andrew), 1873-1956

Letter, 18 March 1916

Roback's article "On Confessions"; William Peterson; prayer controversy; [William Caldwell]; William D. Tait; Cyrus MacMillan; comments on the war.

Hickson, J. W. A. (Joseph William Andrew), 1873-1956

Letter, 21 November 1916

William D. Tait; Roback at Princeton; Woodrow Wilson; [Hugo Münsterberg's] reply to William E. Hocking published in [The New York Times]; comments on the war; Sir Edward Grey; anti-German sentiment; Bertrand Russell (rumour of becoming philosophy chair at Harvard); Josiah Royce; Hickson's students and courses; Walter B. Pillsbury's Fundamentals of Psychology; Roback's article "On Confessions"; William Peterson; Hickson's "discussion" in the Ethical Culture Journal; Cyrus MacMillan.

Hickson, J. W. A. (Joseph William Andrew), 1873-1956

Letter, 4 November 1917

Hickson sends financial assistance to Roback; letter of reference to Prof. Rumble (?); expulsion of James McKeen Cattell at Columbia; John Dewey.

Hickson, J. W. A. (Joseph William Andrew), 1873-1956

Letter, 27 January 1918

Roback's employment; James W. Bridges; American universities; A. Lawrence Lowell; Nicholas M. Butler; academic freedom; Hickson's article on Sir Oliver Lodge (re mind and matter); James H. Leuba's [The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion]; Hickson's article "Nietzsche, Theology and the War"; John Dewey's German Philosophy and Politics; William M. Salter's [Nietzsche the Thinker: A Study]; Hermann von Helmholtz; Hickson's courses; William D. Tait.

Hickson, J. W. A. (Joseph William Andrew), 1873-1956

Letter, 10 May 1919

Hickson on the character of James W. Bridges and William D. Tait; [William Caldwell]; McGill affairs; Hickson considers resigning from McGill; Otto Klineberg; Treaty of Versailles; Hickson's article "French E. and its Vitality"; Sigmund Freud.

Hickson, J. W. A. (Joseph William Andrew), 1873-1956

Letter, 14 June 1919

Roback's article ["The Freudian doctrine of lapses and its failings" in American Journal of Psychology].

Hickson, J. W. A. (Joseph William Andrew), 1873-1956

Letter, 18 August 1921

Hickson's vacation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains (Glacier, B.C.); Dr. Stone (President of Purdue University); Ralph B. Perry; scholarship at McGill; Edisonian Intelligence Tests; Bertrand Russell; Albert Einstein's lectures at Princeton; Hickson's address "Does Einstein's theory support Idealism?"; Dr. Waitzmann (scientist and Zionist); Sir Arthur Currie; Roback's marriage; James W. Bridges.

Hickson, J. W. A. (Joseph William Andrew), 1873-1956

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