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FORTY YEARS OF PSYCHIC RESEARCH- Hamlin Garland-Macmillan...
...counted on to tell the truth about their past, men who have survived three-score-&-ten are more serious than their juniors on the subject of the future. After that lonely milestone, many an agnostic joins the comforting company of the faithful. But last week stout-hearted Hamlin Garland, though he is five years beyond the warning mark, still kept to his lifelong agnosticism. This intransigence was the more remarkable because for 45 years he had been an eager investigator of spiritualism. Last week he submitted his lifetime's report on psychic research. Its sober findings will be respected...
...Author Garland was a young (31) writer in Boston, "a novelist, holding a keen interest in positive science," when he was approached by a friend who was a spiritualist, asked to join a circle for the investigation of psychic phenomena. When a skeptical professor of physics also agreed to join, Garland went along. Thereafter, in many a darkened room (and sometimes in a daylit office), he heard, saw, felt many a queer thing. Scientifically curious, he kept records of the seances he attended. In Forty Years of Psychic Research he has rewritten those records into a "plain narrative of fact...
...Mayor: All right, if he doesn't go, I will. (Stomping out the door.) Councilman Garland: I'm glad he's gone...
...room in Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank Building last week met Board President Samuel Harden Church and his fellow trustees of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Among them were five ex-officio members: Pittsburgh's rumpus-raising Mayor William Nissley McNair; Councilman Robert Garland, who is currently under indictment in Manhattan for using the mails to defraud; Councilman Cornelius D. Scully, whose election is challenged by the Mayor; Councilman Walter R. Demmler and Councilman Charles P. Anderson. Their purpose: to elect a president of Carnegie Tech to succeed aging, ailing Dr. Thomas Stockham Baker...