n the emerging science of psychology. Calkins was appointed to the position on the condition that she study psychology for a year. Thus began Calkins search for a graduate program that would accept a woman student. Calkins was finally permitted to attend Harvard as a guest student after petitions from her father and the president of Wellesley smoothed the way (Johnson, 1997).
             Calkins entered Harvard in the fall of 1890 and studied with William James. Within a few weeks after the semester began, all the other students in James' psychology program dropped out and Calkins enjoyed the privilege of being James' only student. With the recent publication of James' Principles of Psychology and almost unlimited access to the author, Calkins writes that she gained "... a vivid sense of the concreteness of psychology and of the immediate reality of 'finite individual minds' with their 'thoughts and feelings.'" Of James' text, Calkins said "that each chapter of this incomparable treatise left some impress on my mind so that, to this day, I can turn with assurance to the chapter and page in which James considers this or that topic." (Calkins, 1930). Philosophy may have been Calkins' primary interest, but she was clearly "hooked" on psychology.
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