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Professor Martin Honoreddegree, upon the completion of a worthy piece of independent work and the passing of a required examination by a candidate, but is conferred as a high and rare rank of scholarship upon persons who have made unique contributions to knowledge. Proferror Martin’s first intimation that she was even being considered for the degree came in a cablegram from a German psychologist: “Congratulations to the Bonn Professor!” The meaning of this was made clear a few days ago upon the receipt jf the diploma itself.In Professor Martin’s case the degree was conferred, according to the scholastic Latin of the diploma, for her achievements, either as an absolute pioneer or in following up the discoveries of German pioneers, in reducing the whole subject of imageless thought through the introduction and development of a method for its exact measurement, in working out a method of suggestions (hypnotism) that is applicable in making investigations in normal psychology, in devising and formulating a method for the study of memory by the projecting of visual images, and in deducing principles I and laws of aesthetics through experi-mental psychological study of aesthetic material—that is pictures, poetry ! and so on. The degree is especially significant coming from Bonn, since it is on the faculty of this university and that of Gottingen, where Dr. Martin has also studied, that thegreatest psychologists of the worldare gathered.%
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Stanford Daily
Stanford, California, US
Fri, Sep 05, 1913
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