Word: murchison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boards with McAllister, popularly known as the "Flying Cop." A week ago McAllister sped by Chester Bowman, the national 60 yard champion, to win by a yard. The Crimson's giant speedster will start with Russell, the Cornell star, McAllister and Charles in the 60 yard race. Leon Murchison, Frank Hussey, Jackson Schoiz, and Ernest Morrill will leave the marks in the second heat. The two leaders of each dash will clash in the 50 yard finals. Murchison had not lost a race at the Mill rose games in four years, but he may not show his usual speed tomorrow...
People who believe in ghosts, and others who do not, assembled last week at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., for a symposium on psychical research, called by Dr. Carl Murchison, Clark psychology chief, for the express purpose of assembling all evidence pro and con on returned spirits and publishing an impartial record. Dr. Murchison first made it clear that he and his Clark colleagues were downright skeptics, then opened the conference with a paper by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This paper, while it contained nothing new, made a distinction, sharply sustained by later speakers, between psychic research and the spiritist...
MacDougall. Skeptical laymen were brought up short when Dr. Murchison read a paper contributed by Professor William MacDougall, Harvard psychologist, who sat on the Margery investigation committee. Dr. MacDougall was frank to say that ghosts, in his opinion, do exist. He lauded Clark University for agitating the question, urged other U. S. institutions to follow suit at once...
...Seven seconds, set by Lawson Robertson in 1908, equaled in 1913 by Howard Drew (Negro), in 1924 by Loren Murchison...
...final heat is a doubtful question. Clark and Norton are in one heat. Burns is bracketed with Mittlesdorf, while Miller has Smith of M. I. T. and Bowman in his group. Houben and Leconey are in the same heat, and Hussey stands out in the last list of names. Murchison has not been listed, but should he run, and break the thread ahead of the other contenders, it will...