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They manage these things better at Dartmouth. There they have not only diagnosed the psychic cause of snake dances, commencement masquerading and goats, but have set about removing it even in the midst of bright college years. A psychiatrist attached to the Faculty makes it his business to look into the mental and emotional problems of undergraduates and to treat them with a view to their adjustment. Contrary to expectation, the undergraduates have responded in numbers. This may be set down to the ego's delight in the study of the ego, which is accountable for so much...
...year ago, a woman medium almost won, but when the investigators found that the cards on which the spirits wrote were not those provided by the committee, she was declared a fraud. More recently, the wife of a Boston physician failed to satisfy the investigating committee that she possessed psychic powers...
...Lecturer. His interests in spiritualism brought Doyle on several trips to the U. S., spreading the gospel of the psychic. He enjoys lecturing...
...Spiritualist. Spooks were always among Doyle's chief interests. The later years of his life have been almost wholly devoted to studying psychic phenomena and broadcasting his conclusions. He assures the reader that he has chatted with spirits, held their hands, smelt ectoplasm, seen prophecies fulfilled, seen heavy objects flying about, heard supernatural whistling and singing...
...almost every page we find him defending frail beauty with his fists, dodging shrapnel, seizing would-be suicides on the Thames embankment, solving-or attempting to solve-criminal mysteries. Of the intimacies of his life -his mental career-he says relatively little, save for occasional discussion of the psychic phenomena which are his chief interest...