The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-29
CLARK UNIVERSITY.
Celebration of 10th
Academic Year Near
at Hand.
FAMOUS SAVANTS COMING.
Invitations Issued to About
200 Eminent Men
of Science.
FAMOUS SAVANTS COMING.

| tire from July to July 10 inclusive, In
celebration of the completion of it's 10th
academic year, and of this celebration
the central event will be the presence
of five of the most eminent European
professors known to the faculty of
| Clark university.
Similar attempts have been made to
bring over scientific men, by universe
ties, Johns Hopkins having esSayeG
it and Princeton. The idea Of Clark
university in inviting them is two
| fold: In the first place, it is hoped
that their presence will stimulate the
| cause of pure science in the several
| departments represented by them; and
in the second, it is hoped to brig to-
| gether leading scientific men and give
| them a good social time.
In planning for it's birthday party,
| Clark university has believed that this
kind or academic festival would be
! more in consonance with its ideals and
work than would professions, with
brass bands and a big crowd. The
money for it-$4000-has been sub
scribed for that purpose by Is or 20
of Worcesters citizens.
Lectures by the European savants
viii occupy the greater part of the
| first four days, and these will not BE-
public, because few other than tie in
Vited guests will care to hear them,
but Monday, July 10, the last day Of
the celebration, will be public day.
This 10th anniversary has been con-
founded in the minds of some with
the summer school, but there is not the
slightest connection between the two,
several days elapsing after the close
Of the one before the other opens.
Perhaps the most distinguished of the
five European visitors is Prof San
tiago Ramon Cajal. He is professor
of histology at the University of Ma
drid and is altogether the most emf
nent man in that department in the
world and by far the most prominent
scientific man in Spain.
A certain interest attaches to him at
this time in the fact of his Spanish ma
tionality, and he is altogether a typi-
cal Spanish cavalier, handsome and at
tractive personally. He is to be widely
entertained, three New York clubs, the
Century and the Union League among
them, having invited him after the
Clark University celebration, while
Prof. Minot of Harvard University
wishes to show him around there, and
| President Harper of Chicago wants
him, too.
Two years ago he was lionized by the
| Royal Association of London, and it is
certain that he will be lionized in this
country during his stay here. He will
bring with him lots of charts and dia-
grams to show his discoveries and will
deliver one or four lectures as he sees
fit. All of these will be new and never
before published.
Neurologists in this country feel the
greatest. interest in his coming. He is
now on the ocean and is expected to
arrive in New York Saturday or Mon
day, reaching Worcester probably on
| Tuesday, July T. As he does not speak
English, his lectures will be delivered
in French. While in Worcester he will
probably be the guest Of Hon. Stephen
| Salisbury
A certain romance attaches to Prof.
Ramon Cajal. 1t is said that when a
young man he declared that Spain was
decaying in art, literature, science and
every other department, but that he
would devote himself to one branch and
make Spain respected in that. This le-
gend clings to him, although he is not
old, but he is one about whom romance
would naturally spin itself.
Prof. Angelo Mosso of the University
of Turin is very widely known for his
books on sleep, fatigue, circulation, re-
lation of the mind to the body, the
psychology of the body, etc. He is a
genius in apparatus and has his labor
atory in an old castle in Turin. where
he was visited by DR.. Hall. He is a
personal friend of the king, member of
the cabinet and of various committees
Senior Mosso is prominent in italian
politics, belonging to the patriotic par
ty which supports the king. He is a
man of about DR.. Halls age, and ne and
DR.. Hall were fellow students in Leip-
sic, where he was one of the most
brilliantly dashing of the students in
mind and most attractive personally
and socially. Like Prof. Ramon Y Ca
jail, he will be in great demand here,
among his entertainers being the st.
Botolph club of Boston, members of
the medical club of Harvard university
and members of various clubs and uni
versities. He will be DR.. Halls guest
and will deliver three or four lectures
on conscious processes and bodily ex-
ercise, speaking in German, which he
does not use very fiuently, but which
more will understand than his native
Italian.
August Forel, late professor of psy-
chology at the University of Zurich
and director of the central Swiss asy-
lum for the insane, is a specialist in the
treatment of insanity and has published
a great deal on this subject. He for
merly lectured on mental diseases at
the university but has recently re-
tired. Beside being a specialist in in
sanity he is a specialist in the study of
hypnotism, and is as good an author
ity as they have over there. Still an
other subject III which he has special
lied. bears, oddly enough no relation
to the preceding two, and that is the
habits and instincts of ants. He keeps
two artificial formicaries at his house.
where between glass cases. one NAV
observe exactly what the little crea-
lures do. Prof. Forel is genius. In
personal appearance he is very i'm
pressive He will speak French in the
two lectures he will deliver here upon
first, the habits of ants, and second
| hypnotism.
Ludwig Boltzmann, professor of the
oretical physics at the University of
Vienna, is the only one of the five Wis
iting European savants to be accom-
panied by his wife. Prof BoItzmann
was picked out by the mathematical
faculty of Clark University as the lead
ing man in his speciality in Europe He
will give three or four lectures on tho
principles and fundamental equations
of mechanics on as many successiva
days and will speak in German. Prof
Boltzmann has made many researches
| in physics. both laboratory and n,atb
| ematical. but more of the latter and &c
a man of a great deal of vigor- The
amount of work he turns out is y
| marvel. He and his wife will he on