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                         RECORDS OF THE
                    DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

             University Archives and Records Service
           University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                            CB# 3926
                  Chapel Hill, North Carolina 
                           275l4-8890

June 1986
     

     The history of the psychology program at the University of
North Carolina has its roots in the Philosophy Department, dating
from 1795. However, it was more than a century before a course
with recognizable psychological content was offered at the
University. In 1891 Henry Horace Williams was selected to fill
the chair of Mental and Moral Science, and in 1906 he began to
offer his two-term psychology course as a junior/senior elective.
In 1911 this course was taken over by Harry W. Chase. In 1914
Chase was appointed the University's first Professor of
Psychology, and courses in experimental and scientific
methodology were soon added to the original general course. With
the election of Chase as President of the University in 1919, Dr.
J. F. Dashiell took over and continued to develop the curriculum
and to expand enrollment.

     In 1920 the Department of Psychology was formally
established in the College of Liberal Arts. Dr. Harry W. Crane
joined the staff in 1921, adding clinical perspectives to the
curriculum. Courses in social psychology were later developed by
Drs. Floyd H. Allport and English Bagby. In 1925 the School of
Education assumed full responsibility for the course in
educational psychology increasing the department's resources for
research and graduate training. With the renovation of New West
in 1928, the department moved into expanded quarters with the
first floor devoted to offices and classrooms, while the top two
floors were furnished as laboratories.

     Throughout the 1920s and 1930s the department continued to
expand its undergraduate and graduate programs as well as its
impact upon the curricula of other university departments and
schools. In 1952 a major development was marked with the addition
of Dr. Louis L. Thurstone and his Psychometric Laboratory from
the University of Chicago. This addition to the department made
it one of the centers of quantitative psychological research. The
department's move into a renovated Davie Hall in 1967 further
improved the research and teaching functions of the department.

     The chairmen of the Department of Psychology have been as
follows:
               John F. Dashiell         1920-1950
               Dorothy Adkins Wood      1950-1960
               John W. Thibaut          1960-1963
               Halbert Robinson         1963-1964
               John W. Thibaut          1964-1966
               Eugene R. Long           1966-1971
               W. Grant Dahlstrom       1971-1976
               John H. Schopler         1976-1985
               M. David Galinsky        1985-
     An inventory of the Records of the Department of Psychology
is provided on the following page.  For more information on the
department, see also the following records groups in the
University Archives:

          Records of the Office of Chancellor;
          Records of the Office of Provost; and
          Records of the Office of the Dean of the College of
               Arts and Sciences


     The records of the Department of Psychology are arranged in
one box as follows:

          Annual Reports, 1959-1961
          Budget Requests, 1951-1963
          Correspondence:
               Arts and Sciences, 1959-1960
               Space Assignments, Departmental, 1960
          Graduate Program:
               General, 1959-1960
               Clinical Psychology, 1960