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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

laws according to which mind develops, and the influence of environment upon this development. In the various courses the laboratory method of instruction is used. By means of •appropriate apparatus the sensations are studied experimentally and the conditions under which the various sensations arise are accurately determined. Apparatus is also employed to demonstrate the reciprocal relation that obtains between body and mind and to test and measure memory, attention, association, and other higher psychical forces. Throughout the courses an effort is made to put psychology upon an exact basis as a natural science. The elementary forces of mentality as exhibited in infant life are carefully studied with a view to determine some of the components of the adult mind. A comparative study of the mental life of animals is undertaken with a view to throw some light upon the morphology of mind. The mental life of defectives and pathological states of mind are discussed in their relations to the normal type. The advanced laboratory work is of a nature to develop a spirit of independent research on the part of the student. The relation of psychology to the physical biological sciences is kept in view, so that the student may be assisted in his endeavor to bring the manifestations of mind and matter into a related whole,