Word: research
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...James Hervey Hyslop in his address before the open meeting of the Graduate Schools Society at Phillips Brooks House last evening. Dr. Hyslop was introduced by Dr. Elwood Worcester of Emmanuel Church, Boston, as one of the greatest, if not the greatest of living authorities on psychical research today. Professor Kirsopp Lake presided at the meeting...
...recital of several of his own personal experiences which finally led him to devote himself to the task of determining whether there is something more in the worold than matter and its functions. In this connection he made reference to Professor Royce, as the best type of psychical research worker, in that he sought unceasingly for facts without hindering the search by untimely attempts to explain the facts obtained...
...James Hervey Hyslop, psychologist, will speak on "The Evidence for Immortality from Psychical Research," at an open meeting of the Graduate Schools Society in Phillips Brooks House, this evening at 7 o'clock...
...this country Stanford University has been provided with a special endowment to facilitate the prosecution of psychical research. An American Society, organized in 1884, is also carrying on similar work. Its efforts, like those of the London Society, have been directed particularly towards the telepathic communication of thought by means of the extreme sensitiveness of the subliminal mind, and to the gathering of evidence tending to prove the continued existence of the mind after the death of the body. At an open meeting of the Graduate Schools Society, to be held in Phillips Brooks House this evening...
Until 1882 when the London Society for Psychical Research was organized for the investigation of alleged telepathy, visions and apparitions, clairvoyance, crystal gazing, automatic writing, predictions of the future, and in fact all kinds of occult phenomena, evidence on these subjects was either accepted with superstitious credulity or scornfully denied as phantasms of the ignorant imagination. Realizing that past evidence had been largely vitiated by fraud, defects of observation, prejudice, lack of technical knowledge and lapses of memory, the London Society has made the most critical and painstaking examination of every unusual case that has come before it, with...