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Show NOTED PROFESSOR DIES SUDDENLY Hugo Munsterberg, Distinguished Distin-guished Psychologist of Harvard Falls to Floor Dying. WAS GIVING LECTURE Was Spokesman in New England Eng-land for Germans and Others Who Favored Germany. Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 16. Hugo Munsterberg, distinguished psychologist, psycholog-ist, author and professor of physiology and director of the phycbological laboratory lab-oratory of Harvard university, died suddenly in a class room at Radcliffe college today. Professor Munsterberg had begun a lecture on elementary psychology before sixty young women. He had talked for about a half hour when he stretched his hand toward the desk aB though to steady himself. Falls to Floor Unconscious. Before anyone could reach him he had fallen and was unconscious when Dr. Harold E. Burtt, an instructor, sprang to his side. Death came in twenty minutes. Professor Munsterberg had appeared ap-peared to bo in his usual health and on last Monday night delivered an address on "the psychology of business." busi-ness." Wellknown In Educational Circles. Well known in educational circles for many years Professor Munsterberg became prominent publicly soon after the groat war begun. A German by birth, he presented In addresses and I in written articles the attitude of the Teutonic allies as he understood It. Gradually he came to bo regarded as a spokesman in Now England for many Germans and others who favored favor-ed Germany. As a result ho was brought Into controversies with other members of tho Harvard faculty who wero outspoken in tho defense of the allies. Professor Munsterberg leaves a widow wid-ow and a daughter. |