The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
ATTACKS The U.OF N.
Prof. Harlow Gale Soon to State
His Case in
Pamphlet.
Charges Varsity Management With
Discouraging Originality and
Fearing the Truth.

According to pamphlet, soon to be issued
by Dr. Harlow Gale, laye professor of ex-
detrimental psychology at the state university
teaching are discouraged at that institution.
The object of the management, he will argue.
is to make that institution mere high
school Of larger growth. an academy where
the professors will teach no more than
what they learned themselves before they
were graduated, no more than what appears
in regular text books.
I'm going to issue a pamphlet before
long,. said Professor Gale yesterday, that
will throw light on the inside management
OF my observations there IN the nine years
that was connected with the faculty. It
will give actual proceedings at the faculty
meetings to prove what I assert.
The real reason why my department was
abolished few weeks ago Is known to many
people PEG e. It wasn't because the board OF con-
university. 1t was simply because the man
agement objected to my methods. &
oi E4r ei number OF years some Of the uni
me resign. One of them exclaimed, re-
member, What we want you to do is to go!
You're stencil in our nostrils!'
But had my friends, too. They insisted
on my staying, and pointed out that the spirit
of the management must inevitably change
before long. In that case. they said, mod
ern control would probably sympathize with
my work, as SO many of the students did.
Charged With MaterIalIsnn.
my experiments in the psychology of the
brain tended to cast doubt on old time
theories, and exerted. in TACT, materialistic
materialistic side, no doubt but they are
not repugnant to predetermined Christians.
Scientific truth is truth, nevertheless, and
truth. 9.~.-. - b. B
Another protest was made here against
my treatment Of the students. I treated
them as sensible, responsible young men and
m CT q he rtyH1n &,,Aa Al ~o<
foreign universities of the highest grade.
But refused to enforce petty discipline.
declined to act as II my students were
simply children at a high school.
And then the fact that I was making
original investigations anu tnat even ven
| tured totalk to my classes about such work,
| repeatedly that the professors at the state
university are hired to teach; that the uni
yersity is no place for original investigations
in. other universities. Ny business was tc
| stick to the text books. suppose I wasn't
to ask any question that couldn't be ans.
wered by quoting a certain line or. para.
| graph. IS
Sequestered In Sky Parlor.
$50, being an inky black sheep, was
driven away into an almost inaccessible per
| on the top of the old main building. Every
afort was made to keep me from having any
classes. Three courses in textbook phycho
logy were provided under another professor
against one course under. me in experimental
psychology One of the first three courses
was made compulsory, but my course wa.
only elective. And students were discour
aged from attending my lectures. The man
agement went so far as to fix the lecture
hours so that one of the other psychological
classes should always assemble at the sam,
hour as my class.
"In spite of these distractions used t,
have thirty or forty students at my lectures
and the students were so well satisfied will
their work that many Of them have alread.
written me to that effect. shall publish
their letters in my pamphlet. The writer
was accomplished in what was called deris
lively my annex to the university.
But I was not the only professor foun
had fellow sufferers and fellow sympat hizers
There are other professors that are sWorkin
toextend their own knowledge over at tn
" and are endeavorng to interest their stu
dents in original research, the research tina
makes scientific education productive an
profitable But these professors have to per
form experiments on the sly, like bad littl
boys that run away from home to fly thei
kites"
To Continue His Work.
Professor Gale, however, will continue hi
investigation. He will receive, he believes
the encouragement of the many friends h
still retains among the university facult
r and students He has leased at 812 Fourt
| street S., opposite the. old court house.
small ,. brick building n!l formerly occupied
company. TIL. main room measures % by {
l feet There are two steel vaults, one
, them 16 by feet. will make an exceller
l dark room. The building, with its spaciou
basement and numerous windows, will cor
stitute an ideal laboratory.
When opened next week the laboratory wi
8 contain much valuable apparatus for tt
Y study of child psychology, the psychology
: the brain, and the psychology of music. &
library will be provided with psychologist,
9 works in various languages
Here Professor Gale will deliver from tin
Il to time courses of lectures, to teachers an
e others. upon child psychology and IL
o psychology of music
: Give found here he says, my Wah1
a fried, my dream of peace, as Wagner Gale
= mis- house at Bayreuth -