ABSTRACT
On September 28, 1988, psychologists trained at the University of Wisconsin returned to their alma mater in Madison to launch a 3-day celebration of the Wisconsin psychology department’s centenary. Fifty years earlier, in 1938, a similar jubilation took place in Madison to mark the first half-century of the Wisconsin department. On that evening in 1938, Wisconsin’s two most notable psychological pioneers were present to speak at a banquet. One was Joseph Jastrow, the department’s founder, then retired and living in the East. It was to be his last visit to Wisconsin. The other speaker was Jastrow’s former graduate student, a man of radically different outlook, Clark L. Hull, who had resigned his Wisconsin teaching position a few years earlier to accept a position at Yale. The two men had clashed and had written disparagingly of each other’s views and styles.
