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is to have a permanent administrative staff, its direction must 

 change, on the scientific side, every three or five or so many years; 

 no single man is nowadays representative of the science. It must 

 have inducements to brilliant young men, in the waj^ of fellowships 

 given for three or five or some good round term of years — competi- 

 tive fellowships, strictly limited irj number. It must have a full 

 collection of historical instruments ; a museum, with descriptive 

 labels and references, alv/ays open to investigators from elsew^here ; 

 perhaps a loan collection of elaborate pieces ; perhaps a workshop, 

 where instruments could be procured by the university laboratories 

 at cost. To be complete, it should have a library and a biblio- 

 graphical establishment ; though I regard these two items, under 

 existing conditions, as of minor importance. 



Such an institution would be both of immediate and of permanent 

 value to psychology. I greatly doubt, however, whether the idea 

 can be realized. There are many sciences, and the Carnegie fund 

 is limited. Much saving might be effected by affiliation with exist- 

 ing zoological gardens, insane asylums, biological laboratories, etc. ; 

 but I should regard the narrowing of the material equipment of the 

 Institution — anything that tended to make it a name or a bureau — 

 and the scattering of the men connected with it as exceedingly 

 dangerous. To do the work which I have in mind, the Institution 

 should be as imposing materially, by its block of buildings and its 

 centralized staff, as morally by its purpose and program. It should 

 be, literally, a central station for psychology. While availing itself 

 of local opportunities all over the country, it should bring together, 

 for a part of each year, the best men in all departments of psycho- 

 logical inquiry. It should be a visible witness to the range and 

 diversity of psychological problems and interests. Anything in the 

 nature of a halfway house or a first beginning I should look on with 

 grave suspicion. 



If, as I suspect, there is no pro.spect of realizing such an institu- 

 tion as I have here sketched. I should recommend the use of the 

 Carnegie grant for the purposes named in my Science paper, namely : 



4. Valuable fellowships, of $750 or $1,000 for two or three years, 

 granted to doctors of philosophy of acknowledged power and merit ; 

 these fellowships to be held at existing institutions, at the choice of 

 the appointees ; living wages, of $300 or 1^400 for one year, granted 

 to promising graduate students who are too poor to pay their own 

 way ; grants of $500 to $1,000, made to professional psychologists, 

 without demand of program or prom.ise of result, on their personal 



