Frank Whitney Finger was born on April 16, 1915, in Naples,
New York, to the Reverend Jacob and Elizabeth Lewis Finger. He
graduated from Syracuse University in 1936 (B.A.) and in 1937
(M.A.), receiving his doctorate in psychology from Brown
University in 1940. Dr. Finger was a member of the University
of Virginia Psychology Department from March 1942 until his
retirement in 1985 and was associated with the University of
Virginia Athletic Department in various capacities.
He also held appointments at Brown University (1940-1942),
University of Wisconsin (1952), Yale University (1952-1954),
University of Sussex, England (1975-1976), and Canterbury
University, New Zealand (1981). He was active in the American
Psychological Association, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and the Virginia Psychological
Association and acted as a consultant for several federal
agencies and professional journals. Dr. Finger was also a
member of St. Paul's Memorial Church, Charlottesville,
Virginia, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and
the Raven Society.
This collection consists of the personal papers, ca.
1880-2002, of Frank Whitney Finger (1915-2003), professor
emeritus of psychology, containing ca. 15,000 items (50
Hollinger boxes, 21 linear feet), chiefly material from his
teaching and professional careers, his research, service on
University of Virginia committees and Faculty Senate. Finger
joined the University of Virginia faculty in 1942 and retired
as full professor in 1985. Also present are files representing
his students, coaching, travels in foreign countries, his
athletic career and training in track and field, family
papers, and his own memoirs, titled "Reminiscing."
Material generated by his work for the American
Psychological Association was sent to the Association's
archives at the University of Dayton.
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Material for Abnormal
1980-1985
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Abnormal Miscellaneous
1977
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Abnormal Psychology Grades
1958-1972
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Abnormal Psychology Seminar
1984
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Abnormal Psychology Syllabus
1973-1974
- Box 2
Abnormal Psychology, A Syllabus in
1977-1978
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Abnormal Psychology, A Syllabus in
1982-1983
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Biochemical Seminar on Oscillators
1979
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Biology 121
1939-1940
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Book Reports
1971
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Book Reviews
1981
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Chautauqua Course
1978-1979
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Chautauqua Course Notes
1979-1980
- Box 2
Chautauqua Short Course
1979-1979
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Class Notes and Questions
1982-1983
- Box 2
Class Record Books
1952-1976
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Course
1990 Spr
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Course, Honor
1989-1990
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Course Organization
1963-1982
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Courses, Rhythm
1979
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Current Issues in Abnormal
1982
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Evaluations
1966
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First Year Seminar
1973
- Box 3
Handouts to Accompany Transparencies
1978-1980
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Introductory IR
1966
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Objectives and Evaluations
1967-1974
- Box 3
Professional Problems Book Reports
1972-1973
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Psychology 341--Abnormal
1984
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Psychology 342
1980
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Psychology 342--Abnormal
1979-1985
4 folders
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Psychology 342--Evaluation
1980
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Psychology 401--Terms Papers
1984-1985
2 folders
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Psychology 402--Abnormal
1983
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Psychology 402--Term Papers
1990
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Psychology 403--Exams
1990
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Psychology 403--Materials on
1990
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Psychology Class Questions
1972
- Box 4
Reading Reports
1976-1977
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Seminar
1984-1985
2 folders
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Seminar, LA
1978
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Student's Notes
1963-1980
- Box 4
Student's Portfolio on Natural Disasters
and Economic Problems
1937-1944
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Student's Scrapbook on Health Issues
1984
Physical Location: oversize
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Student's Scrapbook on Health
Issues--Clippings
1984
- Box 4
Student's Scrapbook on Psychological
Problems, Crime, and Medical Discoveries
1983
Physical Location: oversize
- Box 4
Summer School--Psychology in Contemporary
Society
1983
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Comments on the Course of Professional
Problems
1967
- Box 4
English Department Fiasco and Econ
Department
1967-1972
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Manuscript on Professional Problems
1969
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Original Professional Problems
1949
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Problems of Writing and Publication
1957-1958
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Professional Problems
1942-1969
10 folders
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Professional Problems
1968-1980
9 folders
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Professional Problem Article Follow-up
1969-1970
- Box 6
Professional Problems Book Reports
1972-1973
- Box 6
Professional Problems--Preparation for a
Career in College Teaching
1970
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Abnormal Productions
1950-1969
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Activity, 6, 12, 18, 24 Hour
1958-1960
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Activity and 23 Hour Feeding Cycles
1950
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Activity Changes Under Food Deprivation as
a Function of Recording Device
1959-1960
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Activity Chapter--Correspondence
1971-1973
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Activity Chapter--Drafts
1973-1977
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Activity Restriction and Feeding Cycles
1954-1956
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Activity Restriction and Adaptation to
Feeding Cycles
1955-1956
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Activity-Temperature Book II
1967
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Activity under Food Deprivation as
Function of Age
1958-1959
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Aging
1981
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Air Blast Activity and Random
Reinforcement
1940
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Animal Research Committee
1984-1985
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Biorhythms
1976-1981
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Carol Noll Hoskin's Research
1972-1978
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Changes in Sex Practices and Beliefs
1975-1984
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Chronobiology
1973-1976
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Circadian Pattern of Activity
1979-1985
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Circadian Rhythm
1980-1990
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Control of Behavior
1978-1984
2 folders
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Current Issues in Abnormal
1982
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Cycles of 23 Hour Food Deprivation
1955
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Cycles of 23 Hour Food Deprivation, Paper
on
1955
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Data--Activity Restriction and Adaptation
to Cycles
1954-1955
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Data--Noise or Quiet
1965
2 folders
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Data Sheet
1958
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Data Sheets--Reinforcement and Activity
1955
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Data Sheets--Restriction Study
1955-1956
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Data Summary--Response to Food Deprivation
1964
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Data Summary--Response to Food Deprivation
of 110-120 Day Old Rats
1964
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Development of Regulations and Licensing
1966
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Direct Observation in Automatic Recording
1963
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Effect of Food Deprivation on Running
Wheel Activity in Naﶥ Rats
1964-1968
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EPA--2 Measures of Activity During
Deprivation and Estrous
1960
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Estrous Activity
1960
- Box 10
Estrous Cycle and Activity--Wheel vs.
Photo
1959
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Estrous Research
1969
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Ethics
1964-1974
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Ethics
1967-1980
3 folders
- Box 11
Ethics and the Honor System
1990
- Box 11
Ethics in Research
1982-1983
- Box 11
Experiments
1979
photograph included
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Experiments and Correspondence
1978-1986
- Box 11
Finger and Reid--Photocell vs. Wheel, 72
Hour Food Deprivation
1956
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Food and Water Deprivation
1952
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Food Deprivation
1951
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Food Deprivation
1964
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General Material on Activity
1955
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Goff, M.L.R. and Finger
1966
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Goff, M.L.R. and Finger--A Diurnal Light
Dark Control
1965-1966
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Graphs
1971
2 folders
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Graphs and Syndicates
1971
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Issues in Contemporary Society
1983
- Box 12
Lab Experiments
1971
2 folders
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Lab Experiments on Mice
1922-1970
2 folders
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Lab Experiments on Mice
1937-1970
7 folders
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Lab Experiments on Mice, Hamsters and
Monkeys
1934-1978
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Lab Experiments on Mice and Humans
1966-1984
2 folders
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Lab Experiments on Mice and Monkeys
1933-1975
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Lab Experiments on Rats
1948-1974
3 folders
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Lab Experiments on Rodents
1955
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Lab Experiments on Rodents and Arthropods
1965-1982
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Lab Accounts
1929-1942
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Liquid Diet
1976
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Long Series of Convulsions and Activity
1950-1952
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Matthews, Spencer R., Jr. and
Finger--Observations--Journal of Physiology and
Behavior
1966
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Noise Raw Data
1966
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Observations with Matthews and Ferruri
1963-1964
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Oestrus Activity
1959-1966
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Photo Activity--Young Males--Food and
Water Deprivation
1959
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Project Proposal Information
1959-1967
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Reid, Starling and Finger--The Rat's
adjustment to 23 Hour Food Deprivation Cycles
1955
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Reid, Starling and Finger--Depravation
Study Publications
1951-1957
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Reinforced Activity--72 Hour Deprivation
1956
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Reinforcement After Hour in the Wheel--22
Hour Food Deprivation
1956
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Reinforcement and Cyclic Food
Deprivation--All Drafts--Correspondence
1956-1957
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Reinforcement in Wheels
1955
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Restriction and Cycles
1957
- Box 16
Rhythms
1980-1982
2 folders
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Right to Life and Death--Right to Refuse
Treatment, Hospice
1981-1983
- Box 16
Sex Differences, Gender Roles,
Homosexuality, and Aids
1983
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Social Control, Ethics, and Legislation
1966-1971
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Starvation Activity
1950
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Temperature-Activity Book I
1967
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Temperature-Activity Book 2
1970
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Tests, Group Differences, and Educational
Problems
1956
- Box 17
Test Questions on Psychological Diseases
1950-1961
2 folders
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23 Hour Food Deprivation Cycles
1965
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Wheel Activity
1964
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Wheel Activity Without Prior Check
Experience
1964
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Adler Reprints
1967-1970
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Affective Psychoses
1959-1987
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Alcohol
1977-1988
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Behavioral Health
1983-1984
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Behavioral Mood Seminar, University of
Sussex
1975-1976
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Controlling Chemotherapy Side Effects
1982
- Box 18
Deafness and the Development of Sign
Language
1974-1978
- Box 18
Deficiency and Traumatic Psychoses
1966-1983
- Box 18
Devereaux Schools
1973
- Box 18
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders--I
1977
- Box 18
Emotional
1957-1985
- Box 18
Epilepsy
1962-1984
- Box 18
ESP--Paranormal
1961-1978
- Box 18
General Principles--Organic Psychoses
1968-1978
2 folders
- Box 18
Insanity
1983
- Box 19
Intellectual Deficit
1957-1988
2 folders
- Box 19
Intervention and [?]
1980
2 folders
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Introduction to Organic Psychoses:
Infections
1979-1984
- Box 19
Introduction to Schizophrenia
1959-1985
2 folders
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Masters and Johnson's Sex Studies
1962-1965
- Box 20
Memory
1962-1983
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Mental Illness
1962-1982
- Box 20
Model Legislation
1977-1982
- Box 20
Model Secondary School for the Deaf
1970
- Box 20
Mood Disorders
1984
- Box 20
Organic Disorders
1952-1977
- Box 20
Nervous System, Muscles, Glands, Speech
1957-1984
2 folders
- Box 20
Neuroses
1959-1985
- Box 20
Organic Disorders
1952-1977
- Box 20
Pain
1973-1982
- Box 21
Perception
1958-1983
2 folders
- Box 21
Personality Disorders: Sociopathy and
Anti-social
1972-1985
- Box 21
Psychiatry
1959-1983
- Box 21
Psychological Diseases
1960-1982
- Box 21
Psychophysologic Disorders
1971-1987
- Box 21
Schizophrenia
1958-1964, 1986
2 folders
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Science
1974-1978
- Box 21
Seizures Activity
1949
- Box 22
Senile
1978-1988
- Box 22
Sensory
1957-1984
- Box 22
Sex
1961-1984
- Box 22
Sexual Dysfunction--Transsexuals and
Homosexuals
1975-1985
- Box 22
Sleep and Dreaming--Percephial Deprivation
1962-1965
- Box 22
Speech Disorders
1963-1969
- Box 22
Suicide
1974-1984
- Box 22
Therapy and [?]
1965-1978
2 folders
- Box 23
Toxic Drugs
1978-1987
- Box 23
Transcendental Meditation
1976
- Box 23
Treatment of Alcoholics
1967-1968
- Box 23
Account for the Examining Board for the
Certification of Clinical Psychologists-- Virginia
1947-1950
- Box 23
American Association for the Advancement
of Science
1960-1964
2 folders
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American Psychological Association
1976-1977
- Box 23
American Psychology Association Centennial
Liaison
1987-1991
2 folders
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American Psychological Association Paper
1957
- Box 23
American Psychological Association
Symposium
1946
- Box 23
American Psychological Foundation and
Association for the Advancement of Psychology
1981-1982
- Box 23
American Psychologist
1964-1971
- Box 24
Blues and American Psychological
Association
1973
- Box 24
Case of W.J. Morgan
1967-1973
- Box 24
Correspondence--State Association
1967-1989
- Box 24
Examination Board
1966-1973
2 folders
- Box 24
Legislation
1973
- Box 24
Manual of Procedures--Virginia Board of
Psychologists Examiners
1970
- Box 24
National Science Foundation
1962-1968
2 folders
- Box 24
National Science Foundation Facilities
Panel
1961-1962
- Box 24
National Science Foundation Research
1958-1961
- Box 25
Office of Institutional Programs
Assignments and Evaluations
1961-1963
- Box 25
Office of Institutional Programs
Disposition Data
1961-1963
- Box 25
Office of Institutional Program Financial
1961-1963
- Box 25
Office of Institutional Programs General:
Correspondence, Minutes, etc.
1961-1962
- Box 25
Office of Institutional Programs,
Instructions, etc
1961-1963
- Box 25
Office of Institutional Programs Meeting
1963
- Box 25
Office of Institutional Programs Travel
Plans
1961-1963
- Box 25
Perkins-Tyson Cases and Associated
Legislation
1968
- Box 25
Reorganization of Virginia Psychological
Association
1982
- Box 25
Revisions of Regulations
1972
- Box 25
Virginia Academy
1944-1946
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Virginia Academy of Academic Psychologists
and Virginia Psychological Association
1983-1989
- Box 25
Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists
1987
- Box 25
Virginia Academy of Science and Virginia
Psychological Association
1957
- Box 25
Virginia Academy of Science Symposium
1957
- Box 25
Virginia Academy Paper
1942
- Box 25
Virginia Examining Board
1963-1965
- Box 26
Virginia Psychological Association
1956-1987
4 folders
- Box 26
Virginia Psychological Association Board
of Directors
1979-1983
- Box 26
Virginia Psychological Association Policy
and Planning
1986-1989
- Box 26
Virginia Psychological Association Board
of Scientific Affairs
1975-1986
1 of 2
- Box 26
Virginia Psychological Association Board
of Scientific Affairs
1975-1986
2 of 2
- Box 26
Virginia Psychological Association
Constitution
1962
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Virginia Psychological Association
Examination Board
1972-1973
- Box 27
Virginia Psychological Foundation
1984-1990
- Box 27
Virginia Academy of Academic Psychologists
and Virginia Psychological Association
1983-1989
- Box 27
Virginia Psychological Association Board
of Directors
1979-1983
- Box 27
Visual Aids for American Psychological
Association Division I: Presidential Address
1961
- Box 27
Weldon Case
1968-1972
- Box 30
Aging Conference
1974
- Box 30
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award
1977-1984
- Box 31
Annual Review
1967-1992
- Box 31
Annual Review Chapter
1971
- Box 31
Avery
1974-1979
- Box 31
Batson, John
1979
- Box 31
Brown
1971-1979
- Box 31
Brown, Steve
1974
- Box 31
Brown--ICI Short Course (Identification
and Criticism of Ideas)
1954-1955
- Box 31
Buxton--The Teaching of Psychology in
College
1953-1954
- Box 31
Carbon of Chapter Final Draft
1970-1971
- Box 31
Career Development
1971-1972
- Box 31
The Cavalier Daily
1975
- Box 31
Finger's Cemetery Committee
1955-1980
- Box 31
Cemetery Committee
1982-1990
- Box 32
Cemetery Committee
1986-1990
2 folders
- Box 32
Cemetery History
1915-1988
- Box 32
Chair Research Support
1971-1985
- Box 32
Chapel Committee
1956-1989
3 folders
- Box 32
Chapel Committee--Minutes of Communication
1975-1979
2 folders
- Box 32
History of University Chapel
1980
- Box 33
Chapter--Journal Searched
1967-1969
- Box 33
Clippings
1980-1987
2 folders
- Box 33
College Committee on Report of Faculty
Student Committee
1949
- Box 33
College Constitution (Rejected)
1954
- Box 33
College Faculty Meetings
1944-1953
3 folders
- Box 33
Committee Business
1976-1977
- Box 33
Committee on Educational Program and
Organization
1964
- Box 33
Committee Structure
1962
- Box 33
Combined Degree Committee
1947-1950
- Box 33
Congressional Record
1979
- Box 33
Course on the "College Teacher"
1952-1955
- Box 33
Courses in Canterbury
1981
- Box 34
Current Problems Activity
1965
- Box 34
Curricular Plans Here and There--Yale
1952-1955
- Box 34
Data--Arts and Sciences Faculty
1959-1963
- Box 34
Debts
1971
- Box 34
Psychology Department
1975
- Box 34
Psychology Department Finances
1928-1946
- Box 34
Department Finances
1942
- Box 34
Department of the Army
1979
- Box 34
Departmental Self Analysis
1954
- Box 34
Mary Diche
1977
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Division I Presidential Address
1961
- Box 34
Division III Presidential Address
1972
2 folders
- Box 34
Draft
1967-1969
- Box 34
Educational/Institutional Policies and
Practices
1980
- Box 34
Emory
1959
- Box 34
Eustis
1975-1977
- Box 35
Examining Board
1966-1970
2 folders
- Box 35
Faculty Committee on Athletic Situation
1953
- Box 35
Faculty Self-Study
1960-1964
4 folders
- Box 35
Final Grant Report
1978
- Box 35
Finger's Thesis on Conforming Behavior in
Greeting of Women by Men
1936-1937
- Box 35
Dr. Frank Finger
1963
- Box 35
Finger's Work
1976-1977
- Box 36
Formal Talks
1964-1986
2 folders
- Box 36
Fraternity Committee
1955-1958
- Box 36
Gallup Poll
1939
- Box 36
Gooch Athletic Report
1951
- Box 36
A "Good" Lecture
1966
- Box 36
Graduate Work
1959-1967
- Box 36
Greensboro, State University of New York,
Tulane, Louisiana State University Graduate Programs
1969-1977
- Box 36
High School
1959-1978
- Box 36
Higher Education
1974-1975
- Box 37
History Terminology
1968-1983
2 folders
- Box 37
Honor Committee
1979-1985
2 folders
- Box 37
Honor Committee--Clippings
1984-1985
- Box 37
Hopkins Colloquium
1951
- Box 37
Ideas for Report
1963
- Box 37
Igel
1966-1979
- Box 37
Individualized Science Instructional
System
1973
- Box 37
Innovation in Curricula
1953-1971
- Box 37
Insanity Plea
1983
- Box 37
The International Encyclopedia of Higher
Education
1977
- Box 37
International Society for Chronobiology
1979-1995
- Box 37
International Society of Chronobiology
Meeting
1979
- Box 38
Interviews
1963
- Box 38
Jobs in Psychology
1963-1980
2 folders
- Box 38
Leave of Absence
1981
- Box 38
Little Rock Meeting
1971
- Box 38
Louisville
1967
- Box 38
Mary Washington College
1979
- Box 38
Material on Chautauqua--type short courses
(Rhythm)
1978-1980
- Box 38
Mathematics and Science Center Session
1983
- Box 38
Mathematics and Science Center
Session--High School Group
1983
- Box 38
McGill University
1972
- Box 38
Mental Health Law Project File
1977
- Box 38
Michigan Teaching Conference
1972
- Box 38
Motivation and Drive of Psychologists
1959-1964
- Box 38
NATO Conference--Hanover
1979
- Box 39
Note Cards
1975-1981
- Box 39
Notes
1971
- Box 39
The Numbers Game
1971-1978
- Box 39
Organization of Departments
1965
- Box 39
Personnel Mental Facilities Clippings
1965-1966
- Box 39
PH.D Thesis: Quantitative Study of
"Conflict"
1940
- Box 39
Philip Morris
1970
- Box 39
Physical Education College Committee
1952
- Box 39
Policy Documents and Reports of the
American Association of University Professors
1969
- Box 39
Political Campaigns
1964
- Box 39
Preliminary Report to the President from
the President's Commission on Mental Health
1977
- Box 39
Preparation of Proposals for Research and
Building Support
1964-1965
- Box 39
Preparation of Teachers
1955-1971
- Box 39
Printed--Articles, Booklets
1977-1982
- Box 39
Problem Athletes
1983
- Box 40
Processions Committee
1948-1949
- Box 40
Project to Improve College Teaching
1970
- Box 40
Programs in Other Sciences Curricula
1968-1970
- Box 40
Psychological Research Facilities
1963
3 folders
- Box 40
Psychological Research Facilities at
Fordham University
1963
- Box 40
Psychology Employment Status
1969-1976
- Box 40
Psychology Major Programs
1968
- Box 40
Ravenna Meeting
1974
- Box 40
Reading Rates on Higher Education
1946-1968
- Box 40
Recommendations
1944-1991
3 folders
- Box 40
Records
1961-1963
- Box 41
Report
1963-1964
- Box 41
Reprints Needing Presentation
1880-1889
- Box 41
Richmond Schools
1979-1980
- Box 41
Schild
1968-1975
- Box 41
Sciences Organization and Public Relations
1958-1978
- Box 41
Self-Study
1973-1974
- Box 41
Self-Study Summary Report--University of
Virginia
1974 Aug
- Box 41
Senate Athletic Committee
1979-1983
- Box 41
Sex Discrimination and Opportunities
1979-1980
- Box 41
Sigma XI Files
1965-1966
- Box 41
SSPP Symposium
1951
- Box 41
Sovereign Democracy
1950-1983
- Box 41
Studies of Various Institutions
1968
- Box 41
Suggestions from Buxton
1955
- Box 41
A Survey of Tenured and Non-tenured
Faculty in Institutions of Higher Learning in the
Southeastern United States Concerning Factors Related
to Career Enhancement
1970
- Box 41
Talks on Teaching--Division II
Presidential Address
1954-1961
- Box 42
Teaching
1953
- Box 42
Teaching Award Committee
1980-1983
- Box 42
Teaching Psychology
1971-1979
2 folders
- Box 42
"Basic Drives" by Frank Finger and Douglas
G. Mook
1962-1970
- Box 42
Thomas Jefferson Award Committee
1981-1983
- Box 42
University of Canterbury
1980-1981
- Box 42
University of Virginia Alumni News
1932
- Box 42
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
1974
- Box 42
University of Virginia--Related Material
1982
- Box 42
Various Questions--My Answers
1939
- Box 42
Various Talks
1944-1955
- Box 42
Various Talks
1953-1978
- Box 42
Mary Whitney's Courses
1969-1970
- Box 42
Young Men's Christian Association
1952-1953