Word: muensterberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tracing the origins of Professor Allport's accent is simpler, though, than uncovering the beginnings of his interest in Psychology, since he can recall no particular traumatic experience that accounts for it. However," as a freshman in 1915 I was greatly perplexed by Muensterberg's thickly accented Germanic lectures in Psychology A. I puzzled over his worry as to whether 'zee post was zere or not zere'...I think my addiction to psychology since that time is due in part to my determination to unravel the Muensterbergian puzzles. I can't say I've solved them...
...limitations of his subject: "None of the really important problems in Psychology has ever been solved. Where did mind come from? Where is it going, if anywhere, after we die? How is it related to the body? What ought men to do with their minds while they have them?" Muensterberg would be glad to know that at least one of his pupils has never lost his capacity for wonderment...