Papers of Roger W. Brown [unprocessed accessions], 1962-1966.
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Harvard University
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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...
Brown, Roger, 1925-1997
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Roger W. Brown (1925-1997), Professor of Social Psychology at Harvard University (1962-1994), is acknowledged as the founder of developmental psycholinguistics and as a pioneer in the study of how and why children acquire language. His studies in the 1960s fostered the earliest understanding of how children acquire basic sentence structures in English. He wrote several classic psychology books and trained most of the leading scholars in the field of language acquisition. From the des...