Article: Analyze this piece of history.(COMMENTARY)

Byline: Albert B. Southwick

COLUMN: Albert B. Southwick

On Nov. 6, 1908, the trustees of Clark University authorized its president, G. Stanley Hall, to "make arrangements for the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the university," expenditures "not exceeding ten thousand dollars." Little did they know that they were about to set off a revolution.

For that occasion, held in September 1909, Dr. Hall hosted an impressive array of academics, including Karl Jung, Franz Boas and two Nobel Prize laureates, A.A. Michelson and Ernest Rutherford. They represented many disciplines. But it was Sigmund Freud expounding on the new theories of ...

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