ritter william e emerson (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Edition. Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1915. This is the original 1915 hardcover first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. Very Good condition. NOT a library discard. A bright, shiny, clean, square, reasonably tight copy. Corners are NOT bumped. Inner hinges are perfect. Pages are creamy white and unmarked. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. This book is from the library of, and bears the ink signature of Dr. Arthur Frank Payne (1876-1939) of Newton, New Jersey. Dr. Payne earned the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and that of Master of Arts at Columbia University. In 1917 he served as executive secretary of the Military Training Commission in New York. In 1918 he was director of the United States War Department surveys. He pursued advanced studies at Harvard where he was made a Doctor of Education. He went on to teach at Columbia, the College of the City of New York, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, and Harvard. Dr. Payne edited several educational and psychological texts for McGraw-Hill and was associate editor of VOCATIONAL EDUCATION MAGAZINE. A gifted lecturer, Dr. Payne spoke regularly on psychology at Carnegie Hall in New York. For many years Dr. Payne was actively involved with the National Education Association, serving as its treasurer and as president of its department of vocational guidance. According to his biography in THE STORY OF NEW JERSEY by William S. Myers, Dr. Payne's "contribution toward solving some of the colossal psychological problems rising in consequence of modern industrial changes was a truly notable one, of value to countless individuals.". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. (xvi), 125pp.