August 21, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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ical elements are invaluable. It is not 

 strange that President Eliot said : ' ' Manual 

 training not only trains the eye and hand, 

 but develops the habit of accuracy and 

 thoroughness in any kind of work. It de- 

 velops the mental faculties of some boys 

 better than books do." Profes.sor James, 

 of Har\'ard, says that "The most colossal 

 improvement which recent years have seen 

 in secondary education lies in the intro- 

 duction of manual training." And Dr. 

 Stanley Ilall says: "No kind of education 

 so demonstrably develops brain as hand 

 training. ' ' 



The minority should have the benefit of 

 this improvement and of those benefits most 

 assuredly. So here is another splendid 

 opportunity for the secondary school. 



To a graduate of Harvard who has for 

 years labored assiduously in secondary and 

 higher technical education to establish a 

 system of instruction which looks squarely 

 towards modern developments in science 

 and the industrial arts, it is extremely 

 gratifying to find his alma mater, under the 

 leadership and inspiration of its distin- 

 guished president, taking high ground both 

 in the organization of technical branches 

 of instruction and in the vindication of 

 their dignity and worth. One is led to 

 apply to Harvard the language the London 

 Times used in speaking of the establish- 

 ment of engineering courses in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, England: "It is 

 pleasant to see our oldest iiniversity, while 

 remaining faithful to all the traditions of 

 its venerable past, at the same time dis- 

 playing an intelligent appreciation of the 

 wants of the future, and affording to the 

 most modem forms of learning the nurture 

 and support which, for many centuries, it 

 has afforded to those forms with which, 

 alone our forefathers were familiar." 



C. M. Woodward. 



June 4, 1903. 



TEX YEAKS OF AMERICAN PSYCUOLOGY: 

 1892-WVi. 



II. 



THE REl^VTION OP THE ASSOCIATION TO OTHER 

 SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZ^VTIONS. 



Our association began its career as an 

 academic affair. Fourteen universities 

 and one lunatic asylum were represented 

 among the original twenty-six members. 

 Just one third of the institutions were in 

 New England and shared just fifty per 

 cent, of the membei-ship. Since then every 

 meeting has been held under the wings of 

 a university. Until the fourth annual 

 meeting, the psychologists were content to 

 stand on their own feet scientifically, and 

 not to yield to the social attractions af- 

 forded by joining the numerous groups of 

 scientists which were meeting here and 

 there over the country. In 1895 the psy- 

 chologists met for the first time with the 

 American Society of Naturalists and Affili- 

 ated Societies. The philosophical pressure 

 upon our organization came to something 

 of a focus at this time, and was yielded to 

 a j-ear later, which was marked by a sud- 

 den influx of metaphysical papers and the 

 formation of a section for the presentation 

 of them. Seven meetings have been held 

 with the naturalists, with whom a joint 

 discussion has been held four times on 

 various themes, in which a psychologist has 

 participated as our representative. Our 

 association has been invited four times to 

 turn aside from its individual or annual 

 way, and unite its associated interests with 

 other scientific organizations, such as the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science and the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. Joint ses- 

 sions have also been held with the American 

 Physiological Association, the Western 

 Philosophical A.ssociation, and two summer 

 meetings in connection with Section H, 



