Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange then spirits are reduced to such phenomena as these to leave word that they have called on their friends. In this case, however, "Walter", was evidently making a social visit and nothing score. He brought flowers, and therefore waited for some time before he made up his mind that there was no one at home, at last, pulling out his ghostly watch--the clock idea is absurd--he went reluctantly away, slipping his fingerprint under the door...
...from the General Education Board came, in part this: "Dr. Eliot has deeply and permanently influenced American education. He led the movement to introduce into elementary and secondary education that training in the careful observation and interpretation of phenomena out of which alone progress in science and the industrial arts can spring; he recognized the sanctity and significance of individual endowment and predilection, and procured opportunity within schools and colleges for the development of the student in whatever way means most to the student himself and to society. As counsellor of other institutions and as President of Harvard, he contributed...
...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...
...eminently necessary to remain a part of the Big Three. Even colleges must retain prestige. And Princeton has derived no little part of hers from the fact that she has long been included in the Big Three. Placing those two facts together, then, one readily understands why such phenomena as those of the last weekend can occur...
...fancies, that the bad taste of a small element in other university will not dictate the opinion of either undergraduate body, that there will never again be a time when the stands are audibly antagonistic, when the teams become central elements in a turmoil of tea cup war. Such phenomena are intrinsic parts of all that the college of today and of the future must attempt with all its power to drive into permanent oblivion...