tory of the Department
This is a brief history of the emergence of psychology at
Pace University during the twentieth century and its
subsequent development into one of Pace University’s
leading academic departments. Two distinct time
periods can readily be delineated in considering this
history.
Pace University began when two brothers, Homer
St. Clair Pace and Charles Ashford Pace, in 1906,
formed the partnership of Pace & Pace to help prepare
candidates for the difficult New York State CPA examination. They rented an office and one classroom in
Horace Greeley’s Tribune Building, on