Septembee 2, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



305 



mentally interested in philosophy gravitate 

 to Harvard; those seeking primarily the 

 scientific attitude find Columbia congenial ; 

 Cornell is the best u.niversity to place the 

 student in touch with the historical devel- 

 opment of experimental work and of sys- 

 tematic psychology; Clark is most widely 

 known for its pedagogical interest in the 

 science; Princeton for the biological inter- 

 pretations of Professor J. Mark Baldwin; 

 Yale for training courses in psychological 

 measurement ; and Pennsylvania for the in- 

 troduction of extended experimental work 

 into its sophomore introductory course in 

 psychology. Nearly all the larger labora- 

 tories have some feature in which they are 

 better prepared for specialization than 

 their contemporaries. Only an extended 

 study of the products of each would reveal 

 these fruits of successful development 

 along particular lines. 



Satisfactory as have been the gains in 

 the past, there are signs which point to 

 fully as large growth for psychology in 

 the near future. That the reader may 

 sense more vividly the increasing stature 

 of the science, there are given below the 

 condensed statements of laboratory direct- 

 ors as to definite improvements now con- 

 templated or just completed: 



Harvard. — New quarters for the psy- 

 chological department are to be provided 

 in Emerson Hall, the $200,000 building 

 which is now being constructed for the 

 exclusive iise of philosophy and psychol- 

 ogy. The laboratory will occupy the third 

 story, 22 rooms. Sixteen rooms will be 

 available for research. Library, seminar 

 and lecture rooms will be located on the 

 other floors.* 



Johns Hopkins. — No detailed plans made 

 as yet, but a fully equipped psychological 

 department and laboratory will be estab- 

 lished by Professor J. Mark Baldwin, who 



* Hugo Miinsterberg, Harvard Graduates' Mag- 

 azine, IX., 424^33. 



previously founded laboratories at Toronto 

 and Princeton, and has recently been called 

 to this university. Professor George M. 

 Stratton, of California University, has also 

 been secured by Johns Hopkins for the 

 work in psychology. 



Leland Stanford, Jr. — The department 

 has moved this year into new quarters, 

 which Professor F. Angell expects to have 

 fully equipped with apparatus in about 

 eighteen months. The new arrangement 

 provides a lecture room for a hundred stu- 

 dents, a library and seminar room, two 

 office rooms (one of which may be used for 

 research), a work room, two dart rooms, 

 a silent and dark room, five large closets 

 for storage, driun smoking, lockers, etc., 

 and nine other rooms for investigation and 

 instruction. 



Blich'igan.—A one-story building, 125 x 

 35 feet, this year was assigned to the psy- 

 chological department. It provides 15 

 rooms, including two dark rooms, all pro- 

 vided with water, gas, low and high poten- 

 tial electric currents. 



Cornell.— The building of the new Gold- 

 win Smith Hall will provide a demonstra- 

 tional laboratory, equipped by a special 

 appropriation, and also a large lecture 

 room fitted up for psychology. Besides 

 this addition, the present quarters in Mor- 

 rill Hall will be increased by adding at 

 least two rooms and possibly as many as 

 eight. A new workshop with improved 

 equipment has been provided this year. It 

 is the plan at Cornell to buy three or four 

 big pieces of apparatus annually, pieces 

 like the Wundt tachistoscope, the Helm- 

 holtz vowel apparatus, etc. New apparatus 

 for quantitative drill work and for class 

 demonstration has been built recently.* 



Pennsylvania. — In 190.3 a lecture room 

 with a seating capacity of 50 was equipped 

 with laboratory tables and with lockers for 



*E. B. Titchener, Amer. J. of Psychol., XIV., 

 175-191; XV., 57-61. 



