Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-10
CLARK UNIvE RSITY.
DR.. Sanford Away to Study
European Laboratories.
Publications by Him and Or. Webster-A
Summer School to Be Held Next July
As UsuaI--other Matters
of Interest.

Dr. Sanford has been granted leave OF
absence until June LIST. He has sailed
for Europe and will make the tour OF
the leading spycho-physic laboratories
of Great Britain and the continent. His
book entitled "A Course in Experiment
tai Psychology" a book of 449 pages,
was issued Wednesday from the press
of D. C. Heath & Co. One hundred and
eighty pages of it had been issued in a
separate pamphlet before, and has been
used as a laboratory handbook In every
institution in the country, where the
subject is taught. There are several
hundred Illustrations and the ground
covered is new; so that the book has no
competitors in its field.
The reviews that come in from DR..
Webster's new book on the Theory of
Electricity and Magnetism" are unani-
NOUS and hearty in commentator of it,
and are generally written by experts
Professor Trowbridge of Harvard says
sit is destined to be of the greatest as
sistance to professors and students OF
physics" Professor MCGEE of Princeton
says: 1T is the best work Of the kind
that has been published" Professor
Ames of the Johns Hopkins calls it the
most important contribution to mathe-
NAUTICAL physics that has been made in
this country; and Professor Barus of
Brown says; 1T is splendid piece of
work. l daresay the most serious and
comprehensive treatise that has APP
since "Voincare's book
Professor Alexander F. Chamberlain
has almost completed his book on THE
Child: A Study in the Evolution of
Man." which is to be published the COM
ing summer He has just published an
article on THE lesson of the little child
in the Northwestern Monthly.
DR.. Hall expects soon to bring out a
volume of several hundred pages on
adolescence.
A second article by Mr.. Burk is an
nounced for the next number of the
Atlantic Monthly.
Mr.. Hylor is printing his thesis on at
tention, in a supplementary number of
the Psychological Review.
DR.. Burnham read a paper on sugges-
| tons from the psychology of adde's
cence at the October meeting of the
New England Association of Colleges
and Preparatory Schools, which has
been published in the December number
of the School Review. He is now en-
gagged in a comprehensive study of the
Training of teachers for secondary
schools, and is preparing book on the
/ hygiene OF instruction.
| Professor Story began Wednesday
evening a course of lectures before the
Lowell Institute on present problems In
higher mathematics The range of top
Pics treated is extensive; and, although
not popular, they will be illustrated by
charts and Diagrams.
A new number of the Math-Review
of which DR.. Story is editor, is nearly
ready for publication.
! The quarterly numbers OF the Peda-
gogical Seminary and the American
Journal of Psychology have just APP
peared DR.. Wolfe on Judgment OF
size, Bolton on illusions, Dearborn on
imagination, Sanford on Vernier chro-
noscope, Sharp on moral judgments, and
Stanley on tickling and laughing, with
the usual digests Of literature, notes and
news, make up the journal. The lead
ing articles of the Seminary are: Mr..
Small, on the instinct of certainty; Mr..
Kline, on truancy and migration DR.,
Gould, on child feliches, and Professor
Dewey on the psychology of number
with notes on about forty new publica-
lions.
DIR. Meyer will soon begin a few elm
les at the hospital for the students in
i psychology.
| Another summer school to be held the
last two weeks in July has been decid-
ed upon, but the program will not be
out for some time.
The university has received from Pro-
lessor Christensen of Salt Lake City two
magnificently mounted deer heads
which have been placed in the hall