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Our three great leaders in psychology 

 had made straight the way, James at Har- 

 vard, Hall at the Johns Hopkins, Ladd at 

 Yale. The publication of "The Principles 

 of Psychology" in 1890 was a declaration 

 of independence, defining the boundary 

 lines of a new science with unapproachable 

 genius. Simultaneously with the printing 

 of the articles composing James's book. 

 Hall was developing the genetic and edu- 

 cational work in psychology which now 

 occupies such a large place. At that time 

 professorships and laboratories of psychol- 

 ogy were established at Clark, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Harvard, Tale, Wisconsin, Toronto, 

 Cornell, Princeton, Columbia and other 

 universities, and these gave birth to the 

 newer generation now active among us. 



Both as significant symbol of the posi- 

 tion attained by psychology and as true 

 cause of its further progress, the establish- 

 ment of the American Psychological Asso- 

 ciation in 1892 is notable. The American 

 Chemical Society, founded in 1876, was the 

 first of our special scientific societies ; it was 

 followed in 1888 by societies of mathema- 

 ticians and geologists. But our association 

 is among the oldest of the fifty different na- 

 tional organizations now meeting here. The 

 association of those with common interests 

 throughout the nation and the world, so 

 that our neighbors are no longer only or 

 chiefly those living in the same place, is 

 among the most remarkable changes and 

 advances of modern civilization. The so- 

 cial group reacts in much the same way as 

 the local group, there are jealousies, mis- 

 understandings and quarrels, but also re- 

 spect, friendship and cooperation, and when 

 the group can perform a useful service or 

 is threatened from without it develops a con- 

 sciousness of kind. Groups of this char- 

 acter, whose individuals are bound together 

 by common interests and objects, may be- 

 come institutions more dominant over our 



lives, having greater claims to our loyalty 

 and service, than the conventional family, 

 the helpless church or the blood-stained 

 nation. 



Our place of birth was Clark University ; 

 the day, July 8, 1892; G. Stanley Hall was 

 our Socrates and mid-wife. The original 

 members numbered twenty-six. It may be 

 worth while to call the roll. Frank Angell, 

 then as now of Stanford University, a lost 

 angel to us, for he is no longer among the 

 fellowship of the saints. J. Mark Baldwin, 

 then of the University of Toronto, whose 

 contributions to psychology have been so 

 notable, also one of the few whose name is 

 absent from ot^r rolls. William Lowe Bryan 

 and Edmund C. Sanford, pioneers in ex- 

 perimental research, now fallen to "that 

 bad eminence," where they bear the load 

 Atlantean of our humbler fates. W. H. 

 Burnham and Bejamin Ives Oilman, the 

 one in a fundamental branch of education, 

 the other in the fine arts, carrying on work 

 somewhat apart from ours, but related to 

 it. William Noyes, recently lost to us, and 

 Edward Cowles, distinguished alienists. 

 Cattell — adsum. John Dewey, John the 

 Baptist of democracy, teacher of teachers, 

 modern master of those who know. E. B, 

 Delabarre, then as now at Brown Univer- 

 sity. W. 0. Krohn, then at Clark; Herbert 

 Nichols, then at Harvard ; E. W. Scripture, 

 then at Yale, no longer climbing the steep 

 stairs and eating the bitter bread of aca- 

 demic life. James Hyslop, now following 

 the mystic grail. J. G. Hume, of Toronto 

 University, who saved us from a narrow na- 

 tionalism and with E. H. Griffin, dean and 

 scholar of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 saved us from a narrow empiricism. 

 Joseph Jastrow, our first secretary, who this 

 afternoon is here to tell us of the work in 

 which he himself has been such a great part. 

 George H. FuUerton, my first professional 

 colleague and comrade, acute thinker, one 



