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Charles Hughes Johnston
The Michigan Alumnus 62-71

Charles Hughes Johnston, who be
comes Assistant Professor of Educa
tion, in place of Theodore De Lagu
na, who resigned to become Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr, was
 born Dec. 21, 1877, at Chapel Hill, 
 N. Car. The Bingham School, Me
bane, N. Car. furnished his prepar
atory training.

He entered the Uni
versity of North Carolina in 1894, re
ceiving the degree of A.B. in 1898. 
The years from 1902 to 1905 were
 spent in graduate study at Harvard, 
 where he received his A.M. in 1903 
and his Ph.D. in 1905. For the four 
years from 1898 to 1902 he was teach
er of Latin and Greek in the Bingham
 School. Since receiving his Doctor
ate at Harvard, he has been Profes
sor of Psychology at Stroudsburg
 State Normal School, Pa., and for 
the year just passed he acted as sub
stitute in philosophy and education
 for Professor H. H. Home at Dart
mouth College.

Professor Johnston
 was instructor in Dartmouth Sum
mer School, and also Thayer scholar
 at Harvard from 1903 to 1005. He 
has written articles on psychological
 subjects in Harvard Psychological
 Studies, Vol. II, in the Psychological 
Review, and in the Journal of Phil
osophy, Psychology, and Scientific 
Methods, and he has also written book 
reviews for the same journals. He is
 a member of the American Psycho
logical Association. 


Charles Hughes Johnson resigned in 1910 to accept the Deanship of the School of Education in the University of Kansas.