The Mansion of Happiness by Jill Lepore

Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 978-0-307-95850-1
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-06-04T14:00:00+00:00

William James first visited Leonora Piper in 1885, just after the death of his infant son and not long after the death of his father, in whose aftermath he had produced a book called The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James. In a trance, Mrs. Piper had offered James the very comfort he must have ached for: mention of his son and “a hearty message of thanks” from his father, for publishing his papers.46 In grief, solace; in death, life. “For years she has been the more or less private oracle of one of our leading and very influential psychologists,” Hall wrote of Mrs. Piper’s hold on James. Hall consulted Mrs. Piper himself—he once visited every psychic in New York—probably first sometime in 1890 or 1891, shortly after the deaths of his parents, and just after a family tragedy of his own.47

Hall moved to Worcester, to take charge of Clark, early in 1889. He had his work cut out for him, because the university’s patron, Jonas Clark, was demanding, unsteady, and changeable, unsure of whether he wanted to found a college for local boys or a first-rate research university. The editors of the local newspaper, the Worcester Telegram, wanted only the former. Hall wanted only the latter, but he tried to keep that to himself. The Telegram sent a reporter to interview Hall, and described him as looking like “a well-to-do German professor.” His best-honed skill was said to be evasion: “Secretiveness is evidently one of President Hall’s accomplishments.” In March and April 1889, reporters at the Telegram produced one exposé after another about the mad science being conducted at the new university by German-born, or German-trained, or German-looking professors. Hall kept laboratory animals locked in a barn behind his house. The Telegram ran a story with a half column of headlines:

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