Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function was to minister to the undergraduate body; to dissolve its woes and anxieties and appease its truancies, and thus to diminish the incidence of depression and suicide and further sound scholarship. When it was understood that Dr. Shaw of the Department of Hygiene was competently fulfilling this office, black hints were circulated to the effect that the new group was about to conduct a systematic investigation of certain enigmatical obsessions prevalent in the Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology was sloughed out of Emerson Hall and quartered upon the most remote...
...Radcliffe student suffers from morbid depression and a copy of McDougall is found on her shelves, her plight is put at the back door of the Psychological Clinic. It is known that abnormal psychology deals with the subject of hypnotism, and hypnotism has its parentage rooted in charlatanism and black magic. Sex and other so-called "Freudian material" tabooed by squeamish and soft-boiled natures are included in this domain. There is a rumor abroad, moreover, that psychopathology advocates the removal of repressions; the very repressions which all parents in an attempt to subdue "Old Adam" have so diligently planted...
...extremes of human activity, the mind behaviour of the criminal as well as the rotarian and the genius, ramifies into all attitudes and objectifications of the human soul. It is preoccupied with hysteria and visions, hence religious conversions, hence ecstasy, hence creative fervor, hence the poetry of William Black. It delves into the obsessional neuroses, hence witchcraft, hence persecutions, hence the devil voices of Cotton Mather. There...
...Concord, visiting his relatives, when the word came that the College boys had, literally, raised the Devil. Prexy saddled his horse and hastened back to Cambridge to find that the report was true. The students were thoroughly frightened at something--whether a practical joke or a bit of black magic, the reader can best decide. Whatever it may have been, the President's remedy was masterly. Emptying his powder horn on the Hall floor, he solemnly exorcised the Evil One, and then, touching off the combustibles with a live coal, literally blew the Devil out of Harvard College...
Football would be no more without seal skin coats (dyed muskrat) if it were not for the dear old black and white...