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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.