ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the academic year 1953-54, my second as a graduate student in Harvard’s Department of Social Relations, Eleanor Sprague, the secretary of Gordon Allport, then Director of Graduate Studies, called me into her office. 1 Although Emerson Hall (the home of Social Relations until 1963) was studded with Titans who imparted seminal knowledge in all four disciplines that made up the department, it was Mrs. Sprague who dispensed to graduate students vital information and resources upon which our everyday well-being depended.
