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Predominant in the group of news-and-picture articles is the essay that Professor Muensterberg contributed to the Illustrated a short time before his death. It analyzes the records of the men who were in his psychology class last spring and drags forward the belief of the psychologist that Harvard undergraduates do not make full use of their own mental attainments. It is remarkable that one man should have won a rating of 100 per cent. in Dr. Muensterberg's test, but it is likewise remarkable that so many of the other students fell far below that grade...
...point of view of the University authorities because it comes so soon after the death of Professor Royce, and because it removes the last of the famous men in Harvard's department of philosophy and psychology. Less than a dozen years ago Professors James, Royce, Palmer, Santayana and Muensterberg were all teaching at Harvard, and their great and varied talents attracted students from all over America and even from Europe. For example, L. P. Jacks, an Oxford scholar, and now editor of the Hibbert Journal, came to America to study under James and Royce. More than this, the fame...
...scab of a healing wound. Unless all psychological signs deceive us, after this war ends peace will really be lasting--and I feel sure the end of the war is near, the World Christmas Tree will be glistening tomorrow, the fragrance of its candles already pervades the world. "HUGO MUENSTERBERG...
This was one manifestation of Professor Muensterberg's many abilities, for he was a distinctly remarkable man. When he took his place in the Harvard Faculty, psychology, as taught in most American colleges, was baseless assumptions in regard to the workings of the human brain. It had no relation to the practical facts of life, was of no imaginable utility in a workaday world, and appealed only to a very small class of closet philosophers who had no interest in Things as They Are. That Professor Muensterberg "changed all that" cannot be claimed, but it is true...
...death of Professor Muensterberg is a great blow to the Faculty and undergraduates of this University in which for twenty five years he has been so distinguished a figure. By his death the intellectual world has lost a man whose efforts have done much to change psychology from a dry study of ethics to a living science, applicable to every-day life. As a man of broad views and international sympathies, as a German citizen who enjoyed the hospitality of America, his greatest wish has always been to promote good feeling between the two nations. Because in recent years...