Presents biographical sketch of Elizabeth Adele Greenleaf, professor and coordinator of College Student Personnel Administration at Indiana University, who made significant contributions to the development of student affairs profession through her leadership as an educator, administrator, and mentor. (Author/ABL)

This paper reports the results of a small-scale narrative study of men and women who grew up in mid-twentieth-century rural Wales, and their reminiscences regarding women and education. Although the dominant image of Wales during that era is that of a male-dominated society, all of our participants remembered influential independent women and…

In 1928, Mary Washburn Conklin was one of 19 young women representing the United States in the year women's track and field became an Olympic sport. Her career in competition is reviewed. (MT)

Suggests that studying collective biographies for political history provides a means of analyzing the behavior, experience and character of many different groups. The approach improves the historian's sensitivity to the majority of historical actors and significantly expands understanding of individuals. (Author/KC)

By using the great ideas approach, the cross-sectional approach (concentration upon a period of time), the biographical approach, and the research approach, college teachers can create excitement for students enrolled in history of psychology courses. Each of these approaches is described. (RM)

Contains the first chapter of a new biography of an influential writing teacher, Mina Shaughnessy, who was a founder of the "Journal of Basic Writing". (PA)

Coulter believed that one of the first duties of the dean was to inspire and uplift the students in active service. He spoke of the soul and of the spirit and of the divine quest of "lifting youth into higher ideals, into a nobler life." (Author)

Asserts that much insight may be gained from watching films about the lives of famous individuals; a filmography lists and annotates such treatments of Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and others. (KS)

Discusses the implications of Charles Darwin's personal and professional history for an academic career in psychology. Relationships between his theoretical position and the content of an introductory psychology course he might teach and how he might fare in a contemporary academic environment are sketched in this fictionalized account.…

Discussed is how G. M. Young's historical essay, "Victorian England: Portrait of an Age," is a reflection of its time and of the abiding cultural concerns of Young's intellectual life. (RM)

A biographical sketch of William Robert Ware, founder of the architectural schools at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia, is presented. After a review of Ware's educational background, focus is on Ware's concept of architectural education. A review of Ware's publications and contemporaries follows. (PHR)

This essay develops the thesis that we can, by appealing to Socrates and Bertrand Russell as role models, counter the assumption that philosophy is an ivory tower enterprise and show students that an essential relationship exists between the process of rationale reflection and the living of a moral life. (Author)

Recorded are some biographical data about the late professor Freudenthal along with some indications about his mathematical work. In an appendix, a tiny part of his mathematical work which can be explained in a fairly direct manner is discussed. (Author)

Examines Gilman's contribution to the Librarian's Conference of 1853, Service as Yale librarian and professor in Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, influence on library development at the University of California and Johns Hopkins, contacts with the profession, and principal library writings. (Author)