Unplanned birth

Arizona did not change from territorial status to statehood until 1912. Before then it was raw frontier of the sort depicted in western cowboy cinema, and the early growth of its first university and of psychology within the university reveals the brashness those films often depict. The regents name one of their number a professor of agriculture so they can claim they are entitled to a grant, a mining engineer teaches the three seniors psychology, a poet draws the assignment for several years, a psychologist shows Mexican-Americans with Indian blood to be inferior to those without, and more. But somehow research and graduate education eventually emerge.

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