Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientists. The majority answered that, with all humbuggery discounted, a large number of successes remained which could not be accounted for by luck or chance. Some favored the explanation of the late Sir William F. Barrett, British physicist, that dowsers have a subconscious power something like the unexplained homing instinct of birds. Others were inclined to believe the theory of Professor John Walter Gregory of University of Glasgow that dowsers learn to recognize certain topographical formations which accompany underground water. A famed British dowser, who had the ability as a child, is the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon, brother...
Reports that moving pictures prove illegality in the Army touchdown against Yale on Saturday, must be laughed at. However true such post-mortems may be, they are distinctly averse to sporting instinct. If they are to be taken seriously there are but two possible preventatives for such occurrences. One would be for all games to be decided in a syndicated photographic dark-room during the week following each major sport event. The other would be to dispense with rules and referees...
With a sense of grateful appreciation to the individual editors who possessed the journalistic instinct and fearlessness to deal with the disgraceful facts of this occasion as they deserved, I am William Lloyd Garrison Jr. '97, Boston...
...with a CRIMSON representative. Professor Skinner, who for some time has been a student of the Legion, explained. "They form a large body of men who have been through a heroic but terrible experience. Whether they realize it or not, fear of war is burned into them. Their first instinct is to prepare against another war, which puts their emphasis on militarism. They tend to wave the flag at radicalism and the menace of war, instead of seeking to study the causes of war and the best methods of removing them...
...editorial instinct of the CRIMSON was aroused by the occasion of the first High Table it might conceivably have applied its high sense of ironic humor to the incident and suggested, among other things, that if the inhabitants of Lowell House (who may be somewhat concerned in the matter) really disapprove of the Tradition, they can quash the matter rather easily by adjourning in a body to the Georgian on any given Monday evening. But the CRIMSON seems persistently to choose to be laughed at rather than with, and repeatedly to make itself headline material for the journals...