Press and Retrospectives
Document Type
Scrapbook
Publication Date
9-1909
Keywords
conferences, Worcester Telegram, Sigmund Freud, Clark University
Description
A collection of Worcester Evening Post newspaper clippings covering Clark University's historic 1909 Conference which took place September 6th through September 19th. These clippings are part of a larger scrapbook containing local and national newspaper coverage of the conference. The other three sections of this scrapbook can be found elsewhere in this Press & Retrospectives series.
This international conference was organized by Clark University President, educator, and noted psychologist G. Stanley Hall to celebrate the institution’s Twentieth anniversary. It featured lectures, discussions, and demonstrations from prominent scientists and scholars across the physical, biological, and social sciences. Many of the invited speakers received honorary degrees, including Franz Boaz (who also taught at Clark from 1888-1892), Carl Jung, Ernest Rutherford, Albert A. Michelson (who taught at Clark 1889-1892), Vito Volterra, Percival Lowell, and E.H Moore.
The conference is most notable for the participation of Sigmund Freud who, along with Carl Jung, would take their first and only trip to America to attend. The five lectures Freud gave, collectively titled “The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis” and subsequently known in print as “Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis”, mark the formal introduction of his theories to the United States.
The materials in this collection reflect the time period in which they were written. Some of these materials contain outdated, biased, and/or offensive ideas, perspectives, and terminology.
These scans were made from a fragile source. While the newspaper clippings themselves remain almost entirely intact and legible, the scrapbook pages are deteriorated in many places.
Recommended Citation
Worcester Evening Post and Clark University, "Newspaper Clippings, 1909 Conference, Worcester Telegram" (1909). Press and Retrospectives. 3.
https://commons.clarku.edu/conferencepress1909/3
