Edgar James Swift

Background

Swift, Edgar James was born on July 24, 1860 in Ravenna, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Edgar and Emily (Folger) Swift.

Education

Graduate Phillips Exeter Academy, 1882. Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1886. Studied university of Leipzig and Berlin.

1889-1892.

Doctor of Philosophy, Clark University, 1903.

Career

Science teacher, Lake Forest, Illinois, Academy, 1887-1889. Teacher psychology, Stevens Point Normal School, 1895-1900. Professor psychology and education, Washington University, 1903-1925, head department of psychology, since 1925.

Lecturer in psychology and education, summer session, Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, 1914, University of Wyoming, 1915, University of Chicago, 1916, Kansas Agricultural College, 1917, University of California, 1921.

Special lecturer applied psychology, Post Graduate School, United States Naval Academy, 1920-1927, Naval War College, 1921-1924. Author: Mind in the Making, 1908.

Youth and the Race, 1912. Learning by Doing, 1914.

Psychology and the Day’s Work, 1918.

Business Power Through Psychology, 1925. Psychology of Youth, 1927. How to Influence Men, 1927.

The Psychology of Childhood, 1930.

The Jungle of the Mind, 1931. Also articles in scientific journals Home: Saint Louis, Missouri

Achievements

• Edgar James Swift has been listed as a noteworthy psychologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Claire Martha Coburn, December 22, 1906.