"War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure."
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Psychologists from the United StatesHarvard University alumniEducators from MassachusettsJohns Hopkins University faculty
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G. Stanley Hall (1919); Cited in O'Donnell, John M. "The crisis of experimentalism in the 1920s: EG Boring and his uses of history." American Psychologist 34.4 (1979). p. 290
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