Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Supernature. For the first time since 1876, psychic research was brought before the Association for official consideration. Dr. Thomas Walker Mitchell made the chief address, telling fellow psychologists: "We may have to revise our notions of what being dead implies. We may have to conceive of the mind of a dead person as persisting in some form that permits it to be still available as a source of knowledge." He argued the strong case for telepathy, admitted the weak case of clairvoyance...
...plate was passed, the Coolidges, consistently impressed by the young man's ability, contributed to a $50 purse which members of the parish tendered Rolf Lium in addition to his monthly salary of $50. Mrs. Coolidge shook hands with Rolf Lium after the service and secured his mother's address...
Presidential Speech. The object of the presidential address on such occasions is to give an account of the Executive for the year. President Calles, reviewing his administration, noted that the third year of his office had not lacked grave difficulties. Touching on the resignations of several ministers, he went on to mention the enforcement of the religious laws, saying that the result has been to how that the "Mexican people are indifferent to the suppression of the cults" and roundly charging the Roman Catholic clergy with rebellious conduct. He noted, too, that several foreigners, among them two "North Americans" (meaning...
Half a century old, the American Bar Association convened last week at Buffalo; heard itself praised extravagantly by Commerce Minister Maurice Bokanowski of France and George K. Montgomery, staff-bearer of the Montreal bar; took satisfaction from the presidential address of Charles S. Whitman, one- time (1915-18) Governor of New York; and settled to its business...
Quantum Theory. Some 200 mathematical physicists listened, perhaps none of them with understanding, to the address of Dr. W. Heisenberg, young German, on the quantum theory of the structure of the universe. The quantum theory, as originated three decades ago by Dr. Max Planck, denies the existence of matter, as commonly conceived, replacing it with energy in basic units called quanta. As modified by Dr. Heisenberg, quanta depart entirely from such reality as can be apprehended by the senses, becoming terms in pure mathematics. Like the first few people to understand Dr. Albert Einstein, the Heisenberg enthusiasts agreed that...