The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-10

| LtSS OF the IoISSt " Accl1HS the pain
| with his hands.
Graduating from Union he obtained a
scholarship at Harvard. where he devoted
! two years TO study of adanced theology,
philosophy and metaphysics. he organ
| lied German table in the college dining
hall and thus improved his conversational
| knowledge. Finally at Harvard. he was
| offered a fellowship in psychology at John
/ Hopkins by DR.. G.. Stanley Hall. But
this he declined in order to go 10 Europe
It had long been his ambition TO finish
his education at the European universe
| ties.
lie sailed for Germany and on board
| his steamer inquired of the passengers
as to where he could find town in the
| Fatherland in which he would hear no
| English spoken. He was directed 10
| Luneburg, in Hanover, and there he lived
! for awhile with the widow Of a Lutheran
| minister His board cost him less than
| SIS a month.
| Each Sunday afternoon. in spite of his
| remonstrances, the widow, her children,
| and his friends sat about table drink
| ing beer and playing for money. But this
| was one of the established customs of the
community.
| For several months DR.. Macdonald i'm
proved his time in mastering CONVERSE
tionaI German. In the fan ne went TO the
University of Berlin month before the
| lectures opened. He called upon the pro-
| fessors of theology and philosophy ana
poured out TO them his ambitions and
his ideals They advised him TO go into
science and medicine. Such equipment.
I they said was essential TO the career he
| sought So he took the regular course
! In medicine and filled out his spare time
| with other studies. He spend ten hours
each day at lectures. He had the adj
vantages of study under the great Vir-
COW, De Bots Raymond and others. The
next year she went to Leipsic and studied
under Wund in his psycho-physical labor
] atory Finishing there he went to Paris
| and entered the class of the great Char
| cot, 1.-THE father of hypnotism," at the
| Salpetriere.
He thus studied hypnotism, nervous dis
eases and other abnormal phenomena.
Becoming especially interested in hypno-
tisn. he went the next year to Nancy
| and studied in the classes of Bernheim
and Liebault. founders OF modern hypno-
tism. When Bernheim first took him into
| the consumption ward of his hospital he
lifted his finger and seven patients fell
| into sleep. Such was the power of the
! great specialist.
Returning to Paris. DR.. Macdonald took
! a small room in the Latin quarter. 1t
| had no windows, only a skylight He
| had no heat, and only a candle to light
him to bed. The room cost him S4
month. He paid cents a day for his
breakfast cents for his luncheon and
! % cents for his dinner. His funds were
! low, but lectures at the University of
| Paris were free. In Germany he had TO
| pay for them. His nights he spent in
| study at the libraries. He received q
bottle of wine with each dinner, but
never tasted it. TIC live in Paris with
out drinking wine was quite as easy as
living in Germany without tasting beer"
he often declares.
But. Paris was bad place in which to
further his knowledge of French. There
were too many English and Americans
| in the French metropolis. So he left for
Lausanne, Switzerland, where he could
hear only French spoken. There he
spent his vacation, paying his way by ex-
/ changing English for French while liv
ing with a retired pastors family.
Next he studied the methods of the
medical school at the University of vi
emma and went from there to Munich.
taking lectures in anthropology. Then
he went to Zurich, taking breakfast with
a German family, lunch with a French
family and dinner with an Italian fam
lily. thus gaining the languages while
studying hypnotism and insanity under
Forel.
The next year he visited the Italian
universities and spent some time with
the great Lombroso. He visited the pris-
ons and stopped awhile with Mosso ir
his great physiological laboratory. which
covers an entire block and which is
larger than many of our big hotels. Fin
ally he went to London and studied the
slums. Then he returned to America
and received a chair in criminology and
applied ethics at Clark University. He
lectured to postgraduate students and
conducted seminar for the investiga-
ton of suicide crime, alcoholism, cocain-
ism and abnormalities in general
He worked thus in prisons. inebriate
asylums and insane asylums, taking up
special cases. During this work he pub
lished his first book, "Criminology.
He lived in prisons at spare times.
actually sleeping in the cells and eat
ing the prison diet He did this. as he
said Ito obtain the criminals point Of
view" He talked confdentially with the
most hardened convicts. and IT IS under
sttod that the information which he
CLEANED from them could never be util-
lied in any legal proceedings.
One convict confded to the doctor his
preparations 70 escape jail. He showed
him where he had sawed through the
rusted parts OF his prison bars and filed
up the assures with brown bread whose
color could not be distinguished from that
Of the rust.
Another convict confided that he had
! once secretsd IN his eel knife and two
raw potatoes He had manufactured
saw by nicking the knife blade AGAINST
the metal work Of his bed Then he had
tempered these impoverished saw-teeth
( by rnoistening them with the potatoes and
heating them with candle held beneath
the bed covering But the doctor never
/ betrayed their condolences. An 81 the
| criminals described in his books ere desig-
mated bya lettering system. the key to
which is known only to himself.
About ten years ago this Investigator
( entered the bureau OF education. where
z he has since worked % specialist in esiu-
I cation as related "a the criminal. paaner
and detective classes.
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