ABSTRACT

In my relationship with Lee Cronbach I have never completely gotten over my initial perception, in which I was the young outsider building upon the work of a highly respected and already established scholar. Although the calendar of birth makes me only 7 months his junior, the 7 years between our Ph.D.'s (his 1940, mine 1947) better expresses my perception (the accuracy of which would be supported by citation analysis). Here is a chronology of examples: