Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, March 30 and 31, 1934.

Lanier, Lyle H.

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“…In 1928, the SSPP established another committee that was charged specifically with considering the first course in psychology (Highsmith, 1928). The Committee on the First Course in Psychology was a joint committee with the MPA, and reports of its activities were presented at the annual meetings in 1934 (Lanier, 1934), 1935(Lanier, 1935, and 1937 (Geldard, 1937). In 1938, the SSPP voted to withdraw from the "Committee of Fifteen" (Geldard, 1938), which was apparently the name given either formally or informally to the joint SSPP-MPA Committee on…”

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25th anniversary meeting and subsequently was published (Miner, 193 1).In that history, Miner discussed the conditions in southern educational institutions in the first quarter of the 20th century. In addition, he discussed the contributions of the SSPP to southern educational institutions and to the two disciplines. The SSPP had the enhancement of teaching of psychology in the South as one of its early objectives and established a committee on teaching psychology, which is discussed later in this chapter.Miner also stated that the SSPP served to counteract the trend toward specialization in the academic world. Finally, he provided a list of officers of the SSPP from its founding in 1904 until the presentation of the paper in 1930.Ten years later, Miner (1941) presented a second history covering the period from 1931 to 1941, and Balz "traced the history of philosophy in the Society during its 35 years of existence" (Munn, 1941, p. 683). However, in the published version, Balz (1941) discussed the relation between philosophy and psychology but little of the history of philosophy within the SSPP.The most recent published history of the SSPP is one by Harris and Alluisi (1964), which is an abbreviated version of a longer history that Harris (1964), the historian of the SSPP at that time, had written. The published version of the history was "authorized" in that the manuscript was approved by an ad hoc committee of SSPP officers. Harris and Alluisi included some of the information that Miner (1931, 1941) had presented and added information about the SSPP from 1941 until 1964. Furthermore, in the Harris version, there was a brief description of many of the presidential addresses. More recently, Cebik (1983) prepared a history for the 75th anniversary booklet.In 1972, Key Barkley organized a symposium on the history of psychology in the South. Since then, there has been an annual history symposium at the meeting of the SSPP, and that symposium has often contained papers about some aspects of the SSPP. For example, I presented a description of the archives of the SSPP (Pate, 1985) and some information about the academic ancestry of some of the presidents of the SSPP (Pate, 1986(Pate, , 1987. Some of that information is included later in this chapter. FOUNDING AND EARLY MEETINGSAccording to Miner (1931), "few societies can so clearly trace their beginnings to one person" (p. 1). That person was Edward Franklin Buchner, who received a PhD in philosophy from Yale University in 1893. In 1903, he joined the faculty of the University of Alabama as a professor of philosophy and education. Despite those credentials, he was a psychologist who contributed frequently to psychological journals. JAMES L. PATECopyright American Psychological Association. Not for further distribution.'Harris (1964) stated that the date of the founding meeting was February 23, 1904, but in the published abbreviated version of that document (Harris & Alluisi, 1964), the date was reported to be February 24, 1904.

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The Southern Society in Retrospect: An Abbreviated History of the First Sixty Years of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1904–1964

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A short history is presented of the oldest of the regional psychological societies in the United States. The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology was founded in 1904 and is celebrating its diamond-jubilee year during 1964. “The Southern Society is the symbol of a conviction, grounded in the history of inquiry, that special and vital relations exist between philosophic reflection and psychological science.” The Society devotes its principal energies “to providing a platform and a congenial convention atmosphere for the academic-experimental-theoretical aspects” of psychology and philosophy.

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Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, March 30 and 31, 1934.

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The Southern Society in Retrospect: An Abbreviated History of the First Sixty Years of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1904–1964

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