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430 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
relief, and the very streets of London seemed transfigured. He
never regretted the decision.
For many years thereafter the father took little apparent interest
in him. He thoroughly expected that his son would become
a moral wreck and a debauchee. As a matter of fact the ethical
ideals were undisturbed, and the life and teachings of Jesus were
seen in a heightened light.
Mr. Hyslop spent seventeen months in the University of
Leipsic. .w undt was among his instructors. He detennined not
to study for a degree, as he saw American students spending a
year 1n learning German in order to pass the oral examination, a
year in writing a thesis, and doing little in actual preparation for
their intended work. Thus he gained vastly more in fitness than
if he had crammed and sweated for a degree. But on his return
he found that vice of American academic management, overweening
respect for tcigs of capital letters, in full operation, and his
lack of one for some time blocked his progress.
His first resumption of teaching was as a substitute in Latin
at Lake Forest University, with a class in the History of Philosophy
added. At the end of the year he became assistant of
Prof . .H. N. Gardiner in Srpith College, Northampton, Mass., for
seven months with the subjects of psychology and ethics. Then
he wrote an essay on ethics in three weeks in competition for a
fellowship in Johns Hopkins University and won it. Thus he
secured, in 1887, after a year's work, the necessary degree of
Doctor of Philosophy, but declares that owing to the cramming
system he got no mental benefit other than from writing his thesis.
For a time he was employed by the Associated Press, and at
the same time published several papers and delivered some lectures.
He resigned to take the chair of philosophy at Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, Pa., and after a few months was appointed
Professor of Philosophy in Columbia University. He
had "arrived". Here he remained from 1889 to 1902, the date
of the near to fatal break-down of his health.
Following his recovery and a period largely devoted to literary
work, came the establishment of the independent American
Society for Psychical Research and the activities for which be
will be mainly remembered. This period, as well as the particular
steps leading up to it, are sufficiently covered by other papers in
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