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Most college men regard the realm of the psychic only as an inexhaustible mine of rather interesting stories, and a "medium" as a species of charlatan earning a living by making giggling girls jump. In view of this wide-spread "he-man" contempt of such stories "authorized by a grandam", it is surprising that Professor MacDougall received as many as six hundred replies out of the fifteen hundred questionnaires which he sent forth...
...modern "Sherlock Holmes" seems to be following Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into the realm of the psychic. No longer does Scotland Yard, at the all-powerful command of Doyle, call the great detective from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only...
...necessity for early general elections definitely entered the realm of practical politics in Britain. The principal reason is that Mr. Bonar Law promised the electorate when he was elected Premier last year, that his Administration, now under the leadership of Premier Stanley Baldwin, would make no changes in the fiscal system without referring the question to it. The preferential tariffs agreed upon, by the Imperial Conference render necessary a fiscal change if they are to be passed by Parliament. Therefore elections must be held. Another reason is that much dissatisfaction has been evinced in some political quarters over the inert...
...Arthur I. Kendall's "Civilization and the Microbe," the much abused microbe will find a worthy sponsor and genuine admirer. Some of the facts which the Dean of Northwestern University of Medicine points out in the fascinating realm of bacteriology are "that without microbes life could not exist on this earth, that one microbe can theoretically increase within twenty-four hours to 78,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, that it takes fifteen millions of millions average microbes to weigh an ounce...
...speaker explained that the idea of a purpose of life was not within the realm or science, which concerned itself with the material system of matter. A concept of the combination of casuality and wholeness, or unifying casuality must be kept in place of the concept of purposefulness he concluded...