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city, he studied philosopliy in Leipzig, under 

 Wuudt among others, taking the degree of Doctor 

 of Philosophy in 1885, and went on with physio- 

 logical studies in Heidelberg (M.D., in 1887). 



In 1887 he habilitated at Freiburg, in Baden, 

 and in 1891 was made professor extraordiuary 

 there. An acquaintance with William James, 

 whom he met at a psychological congress in Paris 

 in 1889, led to a caU to a professorship of experi- 

 mental psychology in this university, and he began 

 teaching here in the faU of 1892. The academic 

 years 1895-96 and 1896-97 were spent in Preiburg 

 again, on leave of absence, and on his return to 

 Cambridge in 1897 he was appointed professor of 

 psychology. Professor Miinsterberg received the 

 honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1901, 

 LL.D., from Washington University, St. Louis, in 

 1904, and Litt.D., from Lafayette CoUege in 1907. 

 He was president of the American Psychological 

 Association in 1898 and of the American Philo- 

 sophical Association in 1908, and was a PeUow of 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 

 a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 

 He had a leading part in forming and carrying out 

 the plans for the International Congress of Arts 

 and Sciences at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 

 and in the subsequent publication of its proceed- 

 ings. In 1901-11 he was the Harvard exchange 

 professor at the University of Berlin. 



Miinsterberg 's fertility and enormous industry 

 were conspicuous from the beginning. While still 

 at Preiburg he published four parts of a theoret- 

 ical and experimental work entitled "Beitriige 

 zur experimentellen Psyehologie, " and four vol- 

 vmies on psychological subjects. 



His first years in Cambridge were mainly spent, 

 beside the daily tasks of instruction, in developing 

 the psychological laboratory and fostering re- 

 search. To the students who resorted to him for 

 training in the new methods of experimental psy- 

 chology he gave freely of time and interest, and 

 his fertile invention supplied many and varied 

 problems for investigation. The production of the 

 laboratory steadily increased in volume and sig- 

 nificance, and in 1903 a medium of publication was 

 established under Miinsterberg. 's direction in the 

 "Harvard Psychological Studies." The well 

 planned and equipped laboratory in Emerson Hall, 

 opened in 1905, was chiefly due to his efforts. 



His first American book appeared in 1899, a 

 collection of essays entitled "Psychology and 

 Life." It was followed by more than twenty vol- 

 umes, besides a prodigious number of articles in 

 periodicals. Of his more strictly scientific writ- 



ings during this period the most important are 

 "Grundzuge der Psyehologie" (1900) — the first 

 volume of a largely planned work which was never 

 completed — "Science and Idealism" (1906), 

 "The Eternal Values" (1909), "Grundzuge der 

 Psychotechnik " (1914). In the latter years of his 

 life his interest turned more and more to the ap- 

 plications of psychology, the practical bearings of 

 the science on education, law, medicine and in- 

 dustry. To this series belong, ' ' Psychotherapy ' ' 

 (1909), "Psychology and the Teacher" (1910), 

 "Psychology and Industrial ElEciency" (1913), 

 with many occasional publications. Miinsterberg 

 had a deep interest also in educational, social and 

 political problems, and wrote much upon them, 

 from "American Traits" (1901) and "Die 

 Amerikaner" (1904), translated (1905) "The 

 Americans," to his recent books on "The War 

 and America," "The Peace and America" and 

 "To-morrow'/ (1916). 



With this great productivity, he was a notable 

 teacher not only of advanced students in the semi- 

 nary or laboratory but of large classes of under- 

 graduates whom from year to year he introduced to 

 the elements of psychology. 



A man of strong and self-confident opinions and 

 positive expression, he was of a kindly spirit, hos- 

 pitable, generous, appreciative of others. His 

 mental energy seemed limitless, his industry tire- 

 less, his optimism unquenchable. He exemplified 

 his own ideal of productive scholarship, and car- 

 ried to the grave with him plans for more books 

 than most of us would think of achieving in a life- 

 time. 



MEMORIAL TO SUSANNA PHELPS GAGE 



Professor Simon Henry Gage and his son 

 Henry Phelps Gage, Ph.D. Cornell 1909, have 

 given to Cornell University ten thousand dol- 

 lars as a memorial to Susanna Phelps Gage, 

 Ph.B. 1880, who was the first woman to take 

 laboratory work in physics in that institution 

 and who in her subsequent career as a neurol- 

 ogist showed the highest appreciation of the 

 need for research in our country. 



The fund thus established is to be known as 

 the Susanna Phelps Oage Fund for Research 

 in Physics in Cornell University. 



It is the wish of the donors that the income be 

 administered by the professors of physics with the 

 cooperation of the president of the university; and 

 that it be used in any way which at the time gives 

 promise of advancing knowledge in physics. The 



