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...Society", said Professor McDougall, "will be known as the 'Boston Society for Psychic Research'. It will be modeled as far as possible after the English Society in its aims and standards and will be entirely distinct from the old American Society...
...large, albeit select membership in the society is desired from Harvard University," Professor McDougall continued. "Many members of the faculty have already been invited to join, and undergraduates who have a sincere, scientific interest in psychic research may be considered for election by submitting their names to the office of the Boston Society which is located at 346 Beacon Street, Boston...
...Committee of Psychic Phenomena investigated Margery. They in- vestigated her for nearly a whole year and then four of the five judges went on record that Margery had failed to produce any supernormal phenomena. Apparently, as long as Margery was in control of the situ- ation "things happened," but as soon as she lost control nothing happened. So Margery is not to get the prize...
...four witnesses see in it a psychic problem. Now, the aim of psychology is to understand the functions of the mind. If this is a mental phenomenon, then psychology may properly deal with it. But if it is a physical manifestation, psychologists will only clothe it in mysticism, and when they begin to delve in magic, they discredit all psychology in the popular mind...
...inspired. This superstition persisted until medical science showed that epilepsy was a disease with understandable causes. With "Margery" the problem may be physiological rather than psychological. It will at once be objected that Doctor Crandon, "Margery's" husband, is himself a capable physician who has investigated, always with psychic conclusions. Doctor Crandon, however, approached the problem with a bias and his special interest casts doubt upon his testimony...