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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, 19 February 1917

Alois Riehl; Roback's article on "the status of Ethics"; Roback's article "On Confessions"; William Peterson; Stephen Leacock; Hickson considers resigning from McGill; William Caldwell; death of Hugo Münsterberg; William E. Hocking; Princeton; Woodrow Wilson; comments on the war.

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

Letter, 28 September 1917

Hickson's mountaineering trips in the Canadian Rocky Mountains; letter of reference to Prof. Rumble; Roback's employment; Hickson offers financial assistance to publish Roback's [The Interference of Will Impulses]; Roback's article "Psychology and the Natural Sciences"; Edwin B. Holt; Otto Kleinberg [Klineberg]; William Caldwell; William D. Tait; Cyrus MacMillan; comments on the war; Unitarian Conference in Montreal; Joseph McCabe's The Bankruptcy of Religion; Roback's article "On Confessions"; Confessions of a Deserter (?).

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, 30 May 1918

Roback's proofs of [The Interference of Will Impulses]; Roback's employment; comments on the war; academic freedom; Hickson's article "Nietzsche and the War"; Bertrand Russell; William D. Tait; John Morley's Recollections.

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

Letter, 14 December 1918

Roback's "draft anxiety"; comments on the end of the war; effects of the war on Prof. MacNaughton.

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

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