Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-14

ganized q German table in the college din
ing hall and improved his conversational
knowledge. Finishing at Harvard, he was
offered a fellowship in psychology at Johns
Hopkins by DR.. G. Stanley Hall. but this
he declined in order to go to Europe II
had long been his ambition to finish his
education at the European universities.
Studied Under Father of Hypnotism."
He sailed for Germany, and on board his
steamer inquired of the passengers as to
where he could find a town of the father
land in which he would hear no English
spoken. He was directed to Luneburg, in
Hanover, and there he lived for a while
with the widow of a Lutheran minister.
His board cost him less than SIS per month.
Each Sunday afternoon, in spite of his re-
monstrances, the widow, her children and
their friends sat about table drinking beer
and playing cards for money. But this was
one of the established customs of the COM
munity. For several months DR.. MacDon-
aid improved his time in mastering CONVEX
sational German.
In the fall he went to the University of
Berlin, month before the lectures opened.
He called upon the professors of theology
and philosophy and poured out to them his
ambitions and his ideals. They advised
him to finish his education with science
and medicine Such equipment, 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 spent ten hours each day at lectures.
He had the advantages of study under the
great Virchow, De Bots Raymond and
others. The next year he went to Leipsic
and studied under Wundt in his psyche
physical laboratory. Finishing there ne
went to Paris and entered the class of the
great Charcot, the father of hypnotism"
at the Salpetrere.
He thus studied hypnotism, nervous dis
eases and other abnormal phenomena. Be-
coming especially interested in hypnotism,
ne went the next year to Nancy and stud
led in the classes of Bernheim and Lie
bault founders of modern hypnotism.
When Bernheim first took him into the con-
sumption ward of his hospital the great
hypnotiSt lifted his finger and seven pa
tients fell into sleep.
Latin Quarter Hardships.
Returning to Paris DR.. Macdonald took a
small room in the Latin Quarter. 1t had
no windows; only a skylght He had no
heat and only a candle to light him to bed.
The room cost him 81 month. He paid
cents day for his breakfast, 8 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 receiv-
ed a bottle of wine with each dinner but
never tasted it. ITO live in Paris without
drinking wine was quite as easy as living
in Germany without tasting beer" he often
reflects.
But Paris was a bad place in which to
further his knowledge of French. There
were too many English and Americans
everywhere In the metropolis of the French
So he left for Lausanne, Switzerland where
he could hear only French spoken. There
ne spent his vacation, paying his : ny by
exchanging English for French, while liv-
ing with a retired pastors family Next
he studied the methods of the medical
school at the University of Vienna, and
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in anthropology. Then he went to Zurich,
taking breakfasts with a German family
luncheons with a French family and din
ners with an Italian family, thus gaining
in 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 prisons and stopped
a while with Mosso in his great physiology
cal laboratory, which covers an entire
block, being larger than many of our big
hotels. Finally he went to London and
studied the slums. Then he returned to
America and received a docentship in Grim
inology and applied ethics at Clark Uni
versity. Here he lectured to postgraduate
students and conducted seminar" for the
of suicide, crime, alcoholism,
and abnormalities in general.
Lived in Prisons.
He worked thus in prisons, inebriate asy-
lums and insane asylums, taking up spe-
cial cases. During this time he published
his first book "Criminology," with an in
PRODUCTION by Lombroso.
He lived in prisons, at spare times act
ually sleeping In the cells and eating the
prison diet. He did this as said, Ito OBJ
tain the criminals point Of view" He
talked confidentially with the most hard
ened convicts. and it was understood that
the information which he cleaned from
them could never be utilized in any legal
One convict confided to the doctor his
tons to escape jail He pointed out