Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first years in Cambridge were mainly spent, beside the daily tasks of instruction, in developing the psychological laboratory and fostering research. To the students who resorted to him for training in the new methods of experimental psychology he gave freely of time and interest, and his fertile invention supplied many and varied problems for investigation. The production of the laboratory steadily increased in volume and significance, and in 1903 a medium of publication was established under Muensterberg's direction in the "Harvard Psychological Studies." The well-planned and equipped laboratory in Emerson Hall, opened in 1905, was chiefly...
...physics and chemistry. Enough has been written already about the glaring deficiencies of the Hemenway Gymnasium. Although there are numerous new buildings that are needed at once, the scientific equipment for use in many of the graduate courses is not sufficiently modern to admit the best results in research work...
...society will have three classes of members: honorary members--professors, instructors and curators of any department in the University connected with natural research; associate members--graduates not now connected with the University, but interested in natural history; active members--graduate and undergraduate students of the University. Its aim is to stimulate interest in natural research and to bring together the many subordinate departments of science which has been greatly split up by specialization...
After a brief survey of the history of the philosophic theories out of which the present form of psychical research has grown, Dr. Hyslop stated thus the question before the psychical research worker today: "Can we find consciousness disassociated from physical organism?" Professor Royce indicated in several of his reports between 1885 and 1887 that from the mass of evidence before him, in his connection with the Society of Psychical Research, that the spirit appears in the form of apparitions after death...
Although the endeavors of research workers have been hindered to a great extent by the credulity of the public in accepting the results of guess-work, fraud and chance coincidence through mediums, a great deal has been done through such mediums as Mrs. Piper, who was first discovered by Professor William James and others of equal importance. The various records of psychic phenomena which Dr. Hyslop set before the meeting revealed in a most interesting manner the basis for his belief that streams of consciousness survive the body. "I believe," said the noted psychologist in concluding, "that you cannot prove...