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Angell, James (Rowland)
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| Educator and psychologist, born in Burlington, Vermont, USA. The son of James Burrill Angell, he was influenced by such teachers as John Dewey and William James. He completed his graduate studies in Europe, and spent a year (1893) teaching psychology at the University of Minnesota before joining the staff of the University of Chicago (1894–1919), where he was also an administrator and president (1919). In 1905 he established the new psychology department, which became internationally renowned. A proponent of the ‘Chicago school’ of psychology, known as ‘functionalism’, he espoused a rationalism that was influenced by John Dewey, and wrote Psychology (1904), a widely used textbook. He went to New York City to head the Carnegie Corp (1920–1), then became president of Yale (1921–37), where he founded residential colleges, strengthened professional schools and the graduate school of arts and sciences, and greatly increased the endowment. Upon retiring, he served as an educational consultant to the National Broadcasting Corporation. |
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