Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reports taken at the seances consistently stated that nothing supernatural had been observed, but that there was "no trickery." One observer demonstrated how many of the effects could be reproduced by clever acrobats, but when additional precautions were taken the next night, the phenomena appeared stronger than ever...
...large gap lies between spiritualism and psychic phenomena," says Mr. Dunworth. "We are not certain but that the latter is possible. Still, under this guise, much trickery is perpetrated. The difference between magicians and those who claim they can communicate with the spirits, is that the ormer admit the presence of fraud and deception. When spiritualists cannot readily produce their occult messages, they will turn to trickery, instead of postponing the seance to another time, which is sufficient proof of their inability...
...Adams, G. '93, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, for research having for its objective the better understanding of the mechanism of the dielectric phenomena in solid dielectrics...
...contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first of the kind in history (excepting necromacy, etc.), were packed to the guards. Editor Horace Greeley and Publisher William Cullen Bryant displayed intense interest when the sisters went to New York City. The seeming phenomena were popularly regarded as "a new revelation." In 1867, a learned U. S. judge estimated there were 10 million spiritualists in the U. S. (2/5 the population) ; more modest estimators said 3 million. Europeans, especially the English, embraced the movement with equal fervor. Late in life, Margaretta called a newspaper...
Both these phenomena--for such they truly are at Cambridge--seem almost too trivial to mention. But they are significant in that they indicate a willingness on the part of students at Harvard University to model their manners and customs after preparatory schools and small-town colleges. Harvard's much-touted "individuality" has left its mark on students for nearly three centuries. But if it is now to yield so readily to the onslaughts of provincial collegians, the Student Council might just as well declare it at an end, rechristen the Yard, the Campus, and make the Freshmen start wearing...