Word: huntington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discounting all attacks against the mathematics of the Duke extra-sensory perception experiments, Edward V. Huntington '95, professor of Mechanics, in is it Chance or ESP?, an article in the Spring issue of the American Scholar, explains the mathematical basis for the Duke tests...
Concerning the current experiments in mental telepathy-Huntington says, "The implications involved in the existence of ability to obtain knowledge of external facts through channels other than the usual five senses are clearly of startling importance for all our scientific and philosophic thinking...
Conceding Huntington School only one second place and five thirds, the Yardling tankmen rolled up a total of 58 points to their opponents' eight yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building pool. Because none of the Crimson swimmers were pressed, the times turned in were generally poor, but Wheeler Smith, tallying 60.28 points in the dive, showed improvement. This is his first year of competitive diving...
...wrote his life of Lincoln, he drew on them, paid a glowing tribute to Herndon, but advised Weik to refuse permission to other biographers. Weik took his advice so literally that for 30 years students could not get access to the 8,000 pages of material. Now in the Huntington Library in California, it has been drawn on by Emanuel Hertz, author of Abraham Lincoln-A New Portrait, in editing The Hidden Lincoln. A belated testimonial to Herndon's integrity, The Hidden Lincoln is a big book, dense and badly edited, repetitious, with few explanatory notes. Although it makes...
Swimming--Fresh., Huntington School...