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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 3'oung men, in the way of fellowships 

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

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

 collection of historical instruments ; a museum, with descriptive 

 labels and references, alwa5^s open to investigators from elsewhere ; 

 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 ps3'cholog3\ I greatly doubt, however, whether the idea 

 can be realized. There are man}- 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 b}' its purpose and program. It should 

 be, literally, a central station for psj'chology. 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 prospect 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 $i,oco for two or three 5-ears, 

 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 $400 for one j'ear, 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 promise of result, on their personal 



