CLARK UNIVERSITY, Worcester, Mass., founded in 1887 by the gift of Jonas Gilman Clark (q.v.), and the work of instruction began in 1889. At first the institution was devoted wholly to post-graduate work. Those only were admitted as students who had taken a first degree and who gave promise of high attain ment in some department of science. No en trance examination was required. The design and organization of the university were en trusted to G. Stanley Hall, formerly a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins Uni versity, Baltimore, and for years a close ob server of schools and school methods in Amer ica and Europe. But few departments have been organized, namely, mathematics, physics, anthropology, biology, philosophy and psychol ogy. Pedagogy (1899) was made one of the sub-departments of psychology. One of the characteristic features in the design is that pro fessors and students should meet on the same plane, the professors to be as older students, the students to lecture occasionally on spe cial subjects. Instruction is entrusted in some degree to the fellows and also to the docents, the latter representing the highest academic university appointments. Original work is encouraged and demanded, and a number of fellowships and scholarships have been founded so that worthy students of limited means may devote themselves to re search along special lines and not be hindered or hampered by doing outside work for the pur pose of continuing their studies. No attempt
has been made to secure large numbers of students; in such a school a small number is desirable. In 1892-93 there were 53 students; in 1896-97, 38; in 1898-99, 48; in 1909-10, 110; in 1913-14, 90.
There are 25 professors, 20 fellowships and 10 scholarships. In the library are 65,000 vol umes, and the following publications are issued by the university, but not officially: American Journal of Psychology; Pedagogical Seminary; Mathematical Review.
Upon the death of Mr. Clark in 1900 the uni versity received a bequest of additional funds for research—$600,000 for a library fund and $150,000 for a library building; $100,000 for an art department, and $1,300,000 for the establish ment of an undergraduate department. In 1902 a collegiate department was opened of which Edmund C. Stanford is president. G. Stanley Hall is president of the university. See