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When reached last night, Dr. M. W. Richardson '89, who has been intimately connected with the mediumship for the last ten years, and has been given the opportunity to test and control it, stated that all phenomena have been proved genuine, and that since the time of the Harvard investigation many experiments have justified the belief that the mediumship is absolutely genuine. The complete account of the seances since 1923 are to be found in the Journal for the American Society of Psychic Research
...hold that a case has been made out for clairvoyance of such strength that further investigation is imperatively needed. I would say the same of many of the alleged supernormal physical phenomena of mediumship. I am not convinced of the supernormality ... but I do feel that evidence for them is such that the scientific world is not justified in pooh-poohing. . . . This is no field for the casual amateur...
Professor McDougall's report on the "Margery Mediumship?. In last evening's Transcript reaches the conclusion that every unbiased observer might have expected. He can find no proof justifying the award to her of the "Scientific American's" prize for the first conclusive case of spiritual manifestations. Professor McDougall assumes the scientific attitude of "not proved". The perusal of his evidence might even lead a casual observer to cry fraud...