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noon the section philosophy of religion, on 

 Thursday morning the section logic, on 

 Thursday afternoon the section methodol- 

 ogy of science, on Fri'day morning the sec- 

 fion ethics, on Friday afternoon the sec- 

 tion esthetics, on Saturday morning the 

 section of comparative psychology and on 

 Saturday afternoon the section abnormal 

 psychology. In the same way the chemist, 

 for instance, has Wednesday morning in- 

 organic chemistry, in the afternoon organic 

 chemistry, Thursday morning physical 

 chemistry, in the afternoon physiological 

 chemistry, Friday morning technical chem- 

 istry and so on. 



It has been thus necessary to secure six- 

 teen halls for the congress, all on the 

 World's Fair grounds. The accommoda- 

 tions of the gigantic fair are amply suffi- 

 cient for this purpose. We have the 

 festival hall with its seating capacity of 

 four thousand and convention hall with one 

 thousand seats, the congress hall, the hall 

 in the Missouri state building and in the 

 transportation building, each with nearly 

 a thousand seats and a dozen more halls 

 with seats for two to six hundred. The 

 chief aim in the distribution was again to 

 bring together all that is internally related. 

 As far as possible all sections of the same 

 department will meet in the same hall. The 

 lawyers will find all their legal sections in the 

 Missouri building, the medical men will have 

 most of the medical section in the transpor- 

 tation building, the sociologists theirs in 

 recital hall, the pedagogical section will be 

 in the educational building and so on. 



There is no doubt this use of all the large 

 halls of the World 's Fair will make it com- 

 fortable for the audiences even if twenty 

 thotisand flock together during the congress 

 week, as of course the large majority would 

 not attend meetings from Monday till 

 Saturday evening without interruption. It 

 may be expected that most guests will at- 

 tend three or four sections only and will 



enjoy the fair in the intervals. Twenty 

 thousand ought to be, indeed, the figures of 

 attendance to make use of the seating ca- 

 pacity. Will these twenty thousand really 

 come ? If the situation were correctly un- 

 derstood over the land the figure would 

 probably be still larger ; five thousand men 

 interested in law or politics or social sci- 

 ences, five thousand men interested in medi- 

 cine or natural sciences, five thousand men 

 interested in education, in history or philol- 

 ogy or philosophy or mathematics, five thou- 

 sand men interested in religion, in art, in 

 literature, and there remain still the thou- 

 sands interested in technology and many 

 other departments. The congress boards 

 hope that these figures are not an excessive 

 calculation. ' 



Only one thing seems to stand in the way 

 of such wide attendance : the unfortunate 

 rumor that the congTess does not wish such 

 popular participation. It seems that the 

 misunderstanding arose as though this con- 

 gress were not intended for the general 

 public, but merely for a narrow set of 

 selected specialists. Nothing can distort 

 more the real intentions. Again and again 

 we receive requests that we send an 

 invitation to that or that friend. The fact 

 is, every educated man or woman ivho can 

 appreciate the proceedings, especially every 

 collegiate or professional man, is heartily 

 icelcome ivithout any invitation. The con- 

 gress does not even demand any fees. While, 

 for instance, the congresses connected with 

 the Paris exhibition asked for consider- 

 able admission fees, the International Con- 

 gress of Arts and Science in St. Louis 

 requires nothing at all but the signing of 

 one's name on the list of participants. The 

 misleading rumor started probably from 

 the fact that the chairmen, secretaries and 

 speakers received special invitations. That, 

 to be sure, was demanded by the whole idea 

 of this congress : that the leading actors had 

 to be selected a long time beforehand as 



