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...inborn aptitude. It was his aim to substitute small, interested classes for large, uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history of the system, however, bears out Professor Munsterberg in his statement in "American Traits," that two-thirds of the elections are haphazard, controlled by accidental motives. In 1903 the Committee on Improvement of Instruction reported that the average amount of study was discreditably small, and that there was a constant increase of men willing to avoid work...
...absence of Professor Peabody, Professor Hugo Munsterberg, as chairman of the Department of Philosophy, to which the Museum of Social Ethics belongs, accepted the gift for the University. He expressed the hope that the new philosophy building, Emerson Hall, and the Museum of Social Ethics which will be contained in it, might become the intellectual union for the scholarly activities of the University...
...Lewald will make the principal address. Dr. H. P. Walcott '58, representing President Eliot, will preside, and in the absence of Professor Peabody, Professor Hugo Munsterberg h.'01, as chairman of the Department of Philosophy, will make a brief speech accepting the gift for the University...
...collection, containing models, charts, maps, and books, will be officially presented next Tuesday evening by Dr. Theodore Lewald, the German Imperial commissioner at St. Louis. The formal exercises will take place in the Germanic Museum, where Dr. H. P. Walcott '58, representing the President, will preside. Professor Hugo Munsterberg on behalf of the University will accept the gift, which will probably be placed in Emerson Hall...
...invitation of Professors Royce and Munsterberg, the annual meetings next December of the American Philosophical Association and of the American Psychological Association will be held in Emerson Hall. These meetings will be the first of the public nature to be held in the new hall...