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IT is gratifying to note that Dr. William Brown, Wilde reader of mental philosophy at Oxford, has (in two recent articles contributed to the Oxford Magazine) raised a protest against the virtual exclusion of psychology from the list of studies pursued at that University. For many years, Oxford has been practically the only important seat of learning which has refused hospitality to that young but vigorous branch of science, and in the course of its consistent opposition it has been instrumental in causing Great Britain to lose two psychologists of the first rank Edward Bradford Titchener, an Oxford man, who after studying at Leipzig with Wundt in the pioneering days of psychology as an experimental science, found that he was unable to arouse any enthusiasm for the subject in his own University and was compelled to take up a position in the United States, where for many years he was professor at Cornell; and William McDougall, who, after being himself Wilde reader at Oxford, was tempted to leave that position by the far greater facilities for teaching and research offered by a chair at Harvard.
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Psychology at Oxford. Nature 132, 186 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132186a0
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