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On February 27, 1939, Dr. Monroe A. Meyer died in his forty-seventh year. His death takes from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute the man who more than any one else had given to it his time and thought and energy. It was his incessant watchfulness which made the Institute function smoothly and effectively. During the last seven years of his life, the major portion of his time had gone into the exacting task of guiding it in its growth from a small, informal unit with a dozen students to a highly organized teaching institution with seventy students. Those of his colleagues who had had an opportunity to know the depth of his analytic penetration and learning often regretted that during these years his scientific energies were not freer from the burden of these administrative responsibilities. He himself felt so keenly, however, that it was important to set the Institute firmly on its feet, that no personal sacrifice seemed to him too great to make.
Before his administrative duties had absorbed him completely, Monroe Meyer had been recognized as a teacher of exceptional ability. His knowledge of psychoanalytic literature and his ability to impart this knowledge in the supervision of the work of his younger colleagues and in seminars had been outstanding. His ability had also been evidenced in significant contributions to the literature and in thoughtful reviews.
Monroe Meyer was born in New York City on August 1, 1892. He received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1913, and graduated from Cornell Medical School in 1916. Soon thereafter he saw service overseas during the war, and at an early age occupied a position of great responsibility in the neuropsychiatric division of one of the base hospitals of