The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-26
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
President Hall, Professors, and all Who
Contributed to Success Of the Session,
Thanked.

The students in the Clark University
summer school desire to express their
appreciation of the many opportunities,
intellectual and social, enjoyed during
the session just closed.
We wish to record our gratitude to
the founders of the university. Mr.. and
Mrs. Jonas G. Clark, and the trustees,
for their generosity in establishing this
institution of higher learning and re-
search, thus affording us opportunities
for work and investigation which we
could not easily find elsewhere.
To President Hall we express our
earnest thanks. His influence upon
educational thought is confined to no
single institution, city or country. The
work he is doing is such that all who
come within its influence are uplifted
and made better His treatment of the
various themes he has presented for
our consideration has been clear, help
full inspiring and full of the spirit of
genuine optimism for humanity.
We also record our sincere apprecia-
ton of the noble instruction and gen
erous services of the instructors who
have so ably assisted President Hall
in the work of this summer school,
Prof. Clifton F. Hodge, Prof. Edmund
G. Sanford, Prof. William H. Burnham,
Prof. Alexander F. Chamberlain, Prof
Ernest H. Lindley, DR.. Adolph Meyer,
Linus w. Kline, Henry D. Sheldon and
Henry H. Goddard.
We tender our thanks to the citizens
of Worcester, especially to Mrs. s. E.
Reed-Lawton and to Mr.. David II. Fan
ming, for their cordial courtesies and to
President G. Stanley Hall for the even
ings at his home
Our thanks are also due to Prof. John
M. Tyler for his two inspiring lectures
on The struggle for existence" and
Conformity to environment" to the
librarian of the university, Mr.. Louis
n. Wilson, for his uniform courtesy in
attending to the many details that have
helped make this session so pleasant
ana prontable; to the Worcester news
papers-The Spy, the Telegram and the
,Gazette-for their careful and accurate
reports of the lectures and their efforts
to enhance the success of the school.
We desire to express our deep appre-
citation of the philosophic thought that
has made evolution the foundation on
which the entire work of this years
summer school has been presented.
Nothing more fundamental, in the his
tory of education, has ever been at
tempted Philosophy, psychology sci
SnSS, dutLHopoIoBy ana pedagogy nave
all made their valuable contributions.
The entire presentation has been most
happy and mastery, and has constitut-
ed a new basis for the improvement and
uplift of education. We have, in par
ticular, been impressed by the deep re-
ligious feeling that has characterized
the discussion of every subject, and we
recognize with profound satisfaction
the exalted endeavor which places rcll-
gion on basis of freedom, intelligence
and scientific truth.
We rejoice in the success which has
characterized the first 10 years Of the
life and history of Clark university. de-
voted as it has been to the higher tram
ing of men for responsible leadership
and the direction of the nations best
thought; and we congratulate the pres
ident, the trustees and the faculty on
the recent decennial so. successfully
and happily celebrated,
We are glad that the citizens Of Wor-
cester appreciate this institution.
known far and wide. which is doing a
needed work, and work unlike that
of any other institution; and we be-