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each student. Another large room was 

 divided into seven small rooms, principally 

 for use in research. These rooms are all 

 wired for telephones and electric currents. 

 The two improvements cost $2,000 and 

 Professor Witmer expects to spend from 

 $1,000 to $2,500 in the near future in 

 further fitting these rooms for original in- 

 vestigation. He will then have a time 

 room, rooms for chronoscope and chrono- 

 graph, a subject reaction room, small and 

 large dark rooms (the latter 50 feet long 

 for visual experiments) . Special provision 

 is to be made for readily making psycho- 

 logical tests on normal and defective chil- 

 dren. Within the next two years the de- 

 partment expects to secure two additional 

 rooms. 



Clark.— The organization of philosoph- 

 ical and psychological departments in the 

 college has taken place this year ; Professor 

 C. B. Sanford gives the courses in philos- 

 ophy and James P. Porter those in psy- 

 chology. An appropriation of $1,500 was 

 made for fitting up this new department 

 in addition to the graduate laboratory in 

 charge of Professor Sanford. 



Nebraska.— The department is to have 

 seven rooms, 2,400 feet of floor space, on 

 the upper floor of the new physics build- 

 ing, now being constructed. At present it 

 has four rooms. 



Wesleyan.—A suite of four rooms be- 

 came available for the department this 

 spring ; only one room was used previously. 



Vassar.—A thousand dollars was appro- 

 priated in 1903 to establish a psychological 

 laboratory under the direction of Dr. Mar- 

 garet F. Washburn. 



Bryn Mawr.—The department will move 

 next year into a building now being con- 

 structed and will occupy five rooms, instead 

 of four as at present. An assistant in the 

 laboratory was added last year. 



Yale.— Dr. C. M. McAllister was this 



year appointed instructor and W. M. Steele 

 made assistant in the laboratory. Appa- 

 ratus necessary for the experimental course 

 is being duplicated so as to provide a com- 

 plete equipment for each group of twp 

 students. 



Tea;fflS.— Psychology in charge of Dr. 

 Warner Fite is this year given apart from 

 the school of pedagogy. 



Wisconsin. — Professor Jastrow contem- 

 plates adding rooms equipped for compara- 

 tive psychology and the employment, to- 

 gether with other departments, of a mech- 

 anician. A shadowless room for stereo- 

 scopic research has been constructed this 

 year. 



California. — An instructor in experi- 

 mental psychology^ Dr. P. S. Wrinch, was 

 added this year to the instructional force. 



C/itcagfO.— Professor James R. Angell ex- 

 pects a new building for psychology even- 

 tually, although not immediately. 



Minnesota.— 'New quarters are expected 

 if a building is constructed for history, 

 political science and philosophy. 



The recent record of psychology makes 

 it plain that a statement of Professor 

 Titchener, of Cornell, made in 1898, has 

 now become trite. Speaking of psychol- 

 ogy in an article in Mind, he said: "The 

 training that can now be obtained in the 

 American laboratories is at least as good a 

 fitting for work in an American university 

 as can be gained in Germany."* America 

 has excelled Europe in psychological equip- 

 ment for ten years. That the progress has 

 not stopped with gaining an advantage in 

 value of equipment is a matter of con- 

 gratulation. In promoting this younger 

 science, the young nation has not hesitated 

 to continue to enlarge the opportunities for 

 psychology, trusting to the workers in the 

 science to refine the quality of the output. 



The foregoing paper has aimed to bring 

 * ' A Psychological Laboratory,' Mind, N. S., 

 VII., 330. 



