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...Psychic Bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knox Elects | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

Such scenes do not yet occur, by design, in U. S. schools. But it is the proceeding that a Paris despatch described last week as Pedagog Phillippe Teste's "psychic bath," adopted by several French schools to develop children's self-control. Teachers testified that the "bath" had proved "extremely beneficial" in tranquilizing unruly, restive children. Doubtless it had stimulated many a logy, lethargic one as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knox Elects | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...infanticide) ; for masculine will power, leadership and brains "sufficient to overshadow any female brain that is placed alongside;" for reversal of pres ent social values that enable the unfit to draw the fit down to their level; for the development of higher faculties in this new, robust man, especially psychic faculties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex War | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 22, 1925 | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

THUS FAR-J. C. Snaifh-Appleton ($2.00). Rushing alongside the horny-hided thriller-reader, Writer Snaith delivers pointblank a tale about a scientist who grafted the fourth dimension upon the fetus of a high anthropoid. The offspring was nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic. Unforturfately, it was also sadistic and clawed out a number of people's carotid arteries, among them that of the scientist. Also unforunately, a very biological biologist and a very bemonocled amateur detective pile the book with slovenly heaps of "scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Bow | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

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