The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-08
Time and the. Hour Pays
Him a Fitting
Tribute.

The recent announcement of the en-
gagement of DR.. G. Stanley Hall, pres
ident of Clark university, has brought
out the following excellent story in the
last issue of Time and the Hour. 1t
will be read with especial interest here
in Worcester:
If he were to fulfill the predictions
made by the traditions Of pioneering
in education that descended to him, and
by the blood in his veins, Granville
Stanley Hall could not have stopped
short of the point he has reached
Seven of the jewellers in his family tree
were in the Mayfiower, and among
them were William Brewster and John
Alden who spoke for himself. This
John Alden spoke to such good effect
that his lineaI descendant today, Gran
vile Stanley Hall, has attained ma
tional reputation in the highest work
that man can do-the Study of man
DR.. HaH's mother was a Beals and
her mother was an Alden, in the direct
| line.
DR.. Halls great-grandfathe was the
first of the family to, go across the
Estate to settle in the Connecticut val
Hey. There he prospered,s and there
the family has been ever since. DR..
Hall was born on a hillside farm in
Ashfleld His father owned and ran
two large farms some, distance apart,
and besides this, carried on several
businesses.
Granville Hail. ST., was a we'll known
man in that part of the country, He
had taught school, though he himself
had had no college, education. His wife
had been educated in. the first female
seminary in this country7that at Al
bany.
Granville Stanley Hall was born in
1S45 It'll he was fourteen years old,
he worked like any other boy on the
farm, and helping his father in his bust
ness He attended Shelburn Falls
academy and from there went to Will
liston seminary to prepare for Will
liams college. 1t made a fine class
that of 1S67-which contained men like
Henry Loomis Nelson, editor of Har-
per's Weekly, Francis Lynde Stetson,
President Dole of the Hawaiian repub-
lie, and Judge. Teller. His nearest
friend in college, however, was Hamil-
ton Mabie This friendship has never
dropped, and today these two gray
headed, dignified, important men call
each other Ham and Stan" AS in
many families Granville Stanley Hall
dropped his first name and used his
second to avoid being confused with
his father whose name was also Gran
vile. The degree he won at Williams
had only whetted his taste for learn
ing, and he went next to Union theo-
| logical seminary, whence he graduated
in 1859. Then going abroad, he stud
led at Bonn, Berlin and other graduate
colleges.
In 1872 he was appointed to the chair
of philosophy at Antioch college, and
it was here that he, met the lady who
was to be his first wife. She was Cor
nelia NJ Fisher, of Boston family
though born and brought up in Gin
cinnati. She was connected with the
Hoopers of Boston, and was a. niece OF
the late Moses Williams.
DR.. Hall came from his chair of phi
losophy at Antioch in 1875, to take al
instructors position at Harvard, where
he remained two years. Then he wen
abroad again, devoting himself to wha
was later to show as the foundation Of
the main structure of his life work. HI
went into psychology and biology witt
] the earnestness which had Character
lied his whole work. Upon his re
turn in 1881, he was called to the chail
of psychology at Johns Hopkins uni
versity. ag4 Ta
4 When Clark university was organized
DIR. Hall saw the opportunity he had
been waiting to seet The university
j was organized in 1887, and DR.. Hal
was asked to take the presidency. HI
accepted, and entered on the work will
4 immense ardor and self-denying deyo'
ton, ? AT this post he has ever since
remained, though his work has broad
ened and developed till now he is rec
ognized not only as the head of the
college which can take students fur.
thest along the lines of psychological
research, but also as one of the fore
! most educators in the land He has
written comparatively few books, but
Ian immense amount of matter in the
form of shorter articles most of which
were published in one of the two jour
nails which he founded.
The traditions of pioneering in his
family DIR. Hall has carried out a mum
4 Der of times. His laboratory for the
study of psychology at Johns Hopkin:
was for four or five years the first OF
it's kind in the world, He brought the
department to a high state of efficiency
before he. left that college. He haC
the first laboratory Of empirical expe-
rimental psychology, with a clinic a.
an asylum. Even today DR.. Hal
speaks of this with the greatest pride
as of his greatest feat Perhaps the
thing which is nearest to his heart after
this is his work in the two journals
of which he has spoken. Then comes
the child-study movement, which, a.
he says, really carries Darwinism int
the field of the human soul"
Three weeks ago. the engagement OF
Dr. Hall and Miss T. E. Smith of New
ton. was announced.
i Dr. Hall at work in his study and
DR.. Hall at a lecture are interesting
| persons. He lives in plain brick cot.
tage behind the ugly university build
ing in Worcester, and the merest caller
at the cottage Is at once impressed
with the fact that it is lined through
out with books. In the reception room
where every Monday night the semi
nary is held, the books are in orderly
profusion, but I'D in the doctors owl
den they simply roost wherever there
is a vacant corner. A tall, glazed case
in one corner contains the most aston
ishing collection of novels, bound In
paper that has ever been seen in the
house Of one man. The Testament
here rubs against azoiais 'sIsa Terre,' ?
and the school committee report of Bal
timore for 1887 with mr.. Potter OF
Texas" and, JOY of joys, with Marie
Bashkirtseff. DR.. Hall viii be pre-
pairing his lecture now; aSrou can see
the lecture spread over half the floor
| in reaflv fvpP-vVfttta ten. sheets Tbase