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  Clark University, 1887-1987 : a narrative history

  William A. Koelsch

  Book Jacket description:
  
  "One hundred years ago Clark University emerged as part of a growing network of American research universities intended to be the peers of any in Europe. Opening in the fall of 1889 as an all-graduate and research institution, and having added an undergraduate program in 1902, the institution has retained its comparative smallness while actively maintaining both the research mission and the international scholarly relationships of its earliest years.

  Clark has been marked by scholarly and educational innovation from its chartering in 1887 to its present-day academic program. The major milestones generally associated with Clark are all here: Robert Goddard and the liquid-fuel rocket, Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit, the origins of "the pill", the founding of the American Psychological Association, and the establishment of psychology and geography as distinctive graduate emphases. These and other developments are placed for the first time in a broader institutional context.

  Synthesizing a wide range of documents, interviews, and his own behind-the-scenes institutional experience, Dr. Koelsch has traced the high and low points in the life of a distinguished institution with an unusual degree of frankness. Both Clark and non-Clark readers will find this centennial profile of the Luxembourg of American universities to be an informative and absorbing narrative."

  Printed in the United States of America
  Book design by David Ford.

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  Incredible day-dream : Freud and Jung at Clark, 1909

  William A. Koelsch

  This booklet collects The Fifth Annual Paul S. Clarkson lecture, about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung's historic 1909 visit to Clark University. As Blaine E. Taylor write in their preface:
  
  "Professor Koelsch helps the reader put the visit in perspective, carefully correcting claims that it introduced Freud to America or that original research was presented for the first time in the lectures. He also traces the importance of the visit to Clark for Carl Jung and the interesting relationship between Freud and Jung....Here is a complete record, full of insight and interesting asides, of the events that led to 'the most concise and lucid account in and out of Freud's writings of the birth of psychoanalysis'".

  This booklet also features photographs and an exhibition catalog for an accompanying display of original Clark University materials relating to Freud's famous 1909 visit.

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  Goddard Convocation Time Capsule

  Clark University

  On October 12th, 1966, five months after ground broke for the construction for Clark University's Goddard Library, a convocation was held to commemorate Robert Goddard. U.S Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who was also Chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, was on-hand to dedicate a 300-pound stainless steel and aluminum time capsule.

  This capsule, which measures over 10 feet and was built to survive over 500 years underground, is a replica of a 1940 Goddard rocket and contains around 90 items and documents relating to Goddard, the Space Age, contemporary life, and Clark University's history. A tablet commemorating the time capsule's location can be seen in the Academic Commons, located on the 1st floor of the Goddard Library building.

  This document is a record, both of the Convocation ceremony in its entirety as well as a complete inventory of the time capsule itself.