Dear Sir, 



The Corporation of Harvard University, recognizing 

 the fact that in our day Psychology has become a distinct branch of 

 scientific research, and following an example set by other institu- 

 tions, has recently founded a Professorship of Psychology, and has 

 appointed Professor William James to fill the Chair- 



The system of psychological instruction now given at Harvard 

 was introduced there fifteen years ago by Professor James, and at 

 that time no teaching of a similar kind was to be had at any other 

 university or college in America. Ever since then the department 

 has steadily grown in popularity and in importance. This year one 

 hundred and seventy-five undergraduates take Psychology as one of 

 their elective courses, and our graduate students come from all parts 

 of the country; of these latter there are at present as many as six 

 who are especially devoting themselves to this subject with a view 

 to teaching it hereafter. Meantime, however, other institutions have 

 not only followed the example thus set at Harvard, but have themselves 

 taken the lead in the same direction. The Johns Hopkins University 



was the first to found a Professorship of Psychology, associating 

 with it an admirable laboratory; then the same was done by the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin; within the past year the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania has created a special Chair and established a costly laboratory 



