Eulogy Of Granvell Stanley Hall

I have devoted my entire life to studying and trying to understand this field of psychology. From the day I began schooling in the fields of philosophy and history I’ve always wanted to do as my peers had. As a young student attending Williams College, I was enticed by the amount of information I was taking in and the amounts of facts I was learning. As with many of peers after I received my undergraduate diploma I continued on to my graduate degree. Unfortunately due to my lack of financial success so far in life I was unable to attend a Graduate program for philosophy in Europe, so I decided that I would go to New York and attempt to get a graduate degree in the Clergy.

New York was somewhat daunting for a young man of my stature. Growing up and spending most if not all my life in a small town in Massachusetts I had never had the opportunity to soak up differently ideas about the world. When I m

I quickly began to realize that with a new life ahead of me, being unemployed and poor wasn’t the way I wanted to be. Due to the fact that I had a Doctorate I decided that I would try and apply for a position to teach. Within ten years of my first application I became president of a local university in Boston. Soon after taking that position my life turned for the better, when I accepted a job as Professor of Psychology and Pedagogy at John Hopkins University, in Baltimore Maryland.

After only one year of attending Union Theological Seminary in New York, I was able to borrow enough money to finally attend school in Europe. When arriving in Europe my main goals were to study Philosophy and the Clergy, but as things most often turn about, I encountered a new study called Experimental Psychology. With the psychology in mind I studied under Mr. Reymond in Berlin until I was unable to pay for the rest of my degree. I then returned to New York to attempt to finish my education once again at Union. As my time grew closer and closer to a close I finished the required work for my studies in the ministry.

I decided that in order to get to Germany I would first find myself a better job, which led me to teacher Sophomore English at Harvard at Cambridge University. As I was teaching I came into contact with William James, a then professor at the University. I decided that I would take classes under him because of the way he handled the information presented. I enjoyed learning under him so much I presented my doctoral thesis on “The Muscular Perception of Space.” For this thesis I spent many hours in the then developing laboratory experimenting on perception. I like to say that most of the thesis was written from my knowledge of the subject and a smaller part was actually studied and researched. From this thesis paper I received the Harvard’s first Psychology Doctorate, which at the time was referred to as Philosophy, but later became known as Experimental Psychology.

During my stay at Clark I tried to develop the psychology department the best I could. Studies seemed a lot of the time unsystematic and scattered, but at the same time, those studied covered many topics. Everything from adolescence to genetic contributions to the development of a person, to th

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