Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that I am a spiritualist. (Holding up a silver cross) I claim to be in communication with Lord Northcliffe, as I am with my father and mother. They have 'gone over,' but they are looking after...
...government, including the U. S. Federal Reserve System. . . . He controls the revolutionary elements of the world, on one hand, and the ultra-conservative elements, on the other, so he has equal power in Communistic Russia and in capitalistic England, not to mention the theatre, motion picture and agriculture.' Jews claim my assertions are without proof. Merchant Straus wanted me to debate my accusations before a pseudo-court of ten persons. I was to choose any eight men I pleased, he the other two. I reject his suggestion...
...learning, and the investigations of science. It has become the aid of the ally of science. It has added to its public of the cheering section the readers of the scientific journals. And since broadening one's point of view is considered a chief function of education, football may claim the right to enter the lists of arts and sciences...
...sustained by later speakers, between psychic research and the spiritist movement. Psychic research was described by Sir Arthur as "a sort of super-materialism;" the spiritist movement as an effort "to support Faith by actual, provable fact." He, of course, was concerned chiefly with the movement. For his own claim upon public consideration the creator of "Sherlock Holmes" mentioned his medical training and the fact "that as a public man of affairs I have never shown myself to be wild or unreasonable." Then he traced spiritualism's history* with fitting reference to the Fox sisters† and Abraham Lincoln...
Building on the foundation of the elective system Mr. Lowell has created what may well be later considered his chief claim to fame as a foremost educator, the system of concentration and distribution, of general examinations, and a modified tutorial plan. Under him Harvard has been a pioneer in this field. The system is too well known to warrant discussion here but it is interesting to note that an examination of his annual reports shows a broad conception of its development from the very beginning of his administration. In the 1909 report he writes, in explaining the new concentration...