The San Francisco call., 1896-05-23
WILL STUDY THE
LIVING BRAIN,
Psychological Laboratory to
Be Established at
Berkeley.
STRATTON IN CHARGE.
Will Be the Only Department of
the Kind in the
West.
MANY STUDENTS QUALIFIED.
Philosophy Given an Impetus by the
Lectures Of DR.. Royce and
DR.. Watson.

SAAst A-.-4A0 OLl-
versity of California will have a psyche
logical laboratory when it opens again in
August. This will be feature which is
possessed by only few of the leading in
stitutions of learning in the world. No
other university in the West has such a
department.
The new laboratory will be in charge of
Instructor G. NJ. Stratton, who is now
studying philosophy in Leipsic, Germany,
and who has been there for the last two
years on a leave of absence. Mr.. Stratton
will take the doctors degree before return
ing to Berkeley, and it is anticipated that
he will be able to do good work in higher
psychological courses.
The new laboratory will be similar in
plan to the famous psychological labora-
tory of Harvard.
Instructor Stratton has in his hands at
the present time an appropriation of $1,000,
made by the Board of Regents. to be used
in the purchase OF apparatus for the lab
oratory.
The apparatus necessary is of delicate
and highly complicated nature, as may be
concluded from the kind of experimental
work to be done, such as registering the
speed of thought, Impressions and expert
ments to determine the relation of the diff
1erent senses one TO another.
The department of philosophy at the
university. of which Professor Howison is
at the head, is recognized as being the
best-equipped department of the kind west
OF Chicago. At Stanford there is depart
ment of psychology, but no laboratory in
connection with it.
In the new laboratory there will be two
courses, one in elementary psychology
with laboratory experiments. For this
class about ninety students have been pre-
pared, and it is anticipated that large
number of them will take up the new work
in the fall.
The other course will be one in advanced
experimental psychology. About thirty
five students are qualified to take this
course.
The lectures last year of DR.. Josiah
Royce of Harvard and of DR.. John Watson
of Queens College this year have done
much toward adding impetus to the in
terest in the study of philosophy at the
State University, and it is expected that
will still further augment the attention of
the philosophically inclined.
Merchants Association.
BERKELEY, CAL, May pa meeting
of merchants was held last night in Pyth-
ian Hall for the purpose of organizing
local protective association of business
men. w. T. Gillihan was chosen chair
man 1Or the evening,
The committees on membership, ap-
pointed at meeting held last week, were
not ready to report and were given further
! time.
Bylaws were adopted providing that
| the organization shall be known as the
Merchants Protective Association of
Berkeley, and that it's officers shall be
treasurer and secret advisory board, to
/ be aDDOinted bV the president
| The new organization will be secret
one, having for its principal object the
protection of members from unrelia BILE
debtors. Members will be required to re-
port to the secretary any case that may
arise of a debtor being delinquent over six
weeks. The secretary. upon being advised
OF such case, will notify all members for
| their benefit.
Organization Of the association will be
completed next Wednesday evening.
Recorders Office to BE Moved.
BERKELEY, CAL, May 22.-The Office
of the recorder of the university will be re-
moved during the present vacation from
North Hall TO the new Mechanics build
ing. The present Office will be then trans
formed into recitation room.
Mrs. Arnold In Berkeley.
BERKELEY, CAL, May 22.-Mrs. N.
NJ. Arnold, editor of The Workman. the
visiting Mrs. Rebecca Naylor in Dwight
way. Mrs. Arnold is regularly author
lied preacher in the society.
Their New Pastor.
BERKELEY, CAL, May 22.-Rev. E.
LYMAN Hood, who has recently been
taking postgraduate course at the State
University, has been chosen pastor of the
Park Congregational Church.
Burned by q Lamp.
LORIN, CAL, May 22.-Chester Perkins,
resident of Lorin, was severely burned
early this morning by the overturning of
a coal-oil lamp. He was in bed at the
time of the accident. The flames of the
overturned lamp ignited the bed-clothing
about him, and it was not until the heat
of the flames awakened him that he was
aware Of the blaze. So severe were the
wounds of Perkins that the services of q
physician were necessary.