As my time grew closer and closer to a close I finished the required work for my studies in the ministry. .
As with every last year student, we were required to prepare and present a sermon to the president at Union. I worked for days, hours at a time preparing my sermon to the best of my ability. As the time drew nearer to present my sermon I became more and more nervous and anxiety started to set it. The day came, and I presented my sermon before the President of the Seminary, and after I had completed my sermon, he then decided that in all his knowledge of the bible and theological studies my sermon was "very un-knowledgeable, and a waste of time", and after all this he threw the copy on the ground and proceeded then to pray for my soul and his.
Because of this encounter with the un-orthodox methods of dealing with my situation I decided that the clergy was not my calling and I decided to follow the philosophy side of my degree to one day become a teacher. After many long hours of private torturing in the field of philosophy I applied and was granted a teaching position at Antioch College in Ohio. During my four years of teaching I constantly remembered the incident at Union with the then president and strove to be everything he was not. During my time teaching at Antioch I stumbled upon a copy of Wilhelm Wundt's book Principles of Psychology. After reading this work of Wundt's I decided that I wanted to once again return to Germany and pursue another field of study in psychology.
I decided that in order to get to Germany I would first find myself a better job, which led me to teacher Sophomore English at Harvard at Cambridge University. As I was teaching I came into contact with William James, a then professor at the University. I decided that I would take classes under him because of the way he handled the information presented. I enjoyed learning under him so much I presented my doctoral thesis on "The Muscular Perception of Space.