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Most college men regard the realm of the psychic only as an inexhaustible mine of rather interesting stories, and a "medium" as a species of charlatan earning a living by making giggling girls jump. In view of this wide-spread "he-man" contempt of such stories "authorized by a grandam", it is surprising that Professor MacDougall received as many as six hundred replies out of the fifteen hundred questionnaires which he sent forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOOKS AND EXPERIMENTS | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

Everyone at some time or other has felt the "call of the wild". But it is one thing to sit in a "movie" (particularly in this hot weather) and admire some "he-man" thrashing through the snow at six and a half miles an hour; and quite another to go out and do it as a steady diet. The state of nature is one state permanently barred from the union by common consent. There are too many porcellain bath-tubs and safety-razors in the world today to make primitive life attractive for any length of time to the overwhelming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACADAMIZING ADAM | 6/12/1922 | See Source »

...professor from entering his office by holding a "nose-powdering festival" on the threshold, and estranged the Metropolitan press by singing football songs on a New York ferry-boat. But this is not all. "Cornell is and always has been essentially not only a man's but a he-man's' school." If something is not done at once "Cornell will face an overthrow." That's the real danger an overthrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UPHEAVAL IN ITHACA | 12/13/1920 | See Source »

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