Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illumination that comes from the interplay of imagination and practical experience needs to be merged with scientific methodology, rather after the fashion of the experiments Dr. Morton Prince '75, before more progress is to be anticipated. It is this that we are attempting to do. During the fall research has been centered about the problems of suggestibility, and an attempt has been made by Mr. Herbert L. Barry to discover the correlation, if any, that exists between hypnotic suggestibility and group suggestibility. Coincident with this and other similar pieces of research a number of studies of the psychoneuroses have been...
...just before returning to France that he is planning to organize an institute of medieval study at the University of Toronto. Professor Gilson will remain for the next six months at the University of Paris conducting courses in philosophy and then expects to develop the institute which will conduct research into the fields of medieval philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and political science...
...kinds of research will be undertaken by means of the apparatus, according to Dr. Philip Drinker of the School of Public Health. The first will be a study, of the curative effects of high and low pressures in diseases such as pneumonia, heart diseases, and respiratory trouble. Very little is known about the therapeutic value of such treatment, but the easily regulated atmosphere of the pressure chambers make them ideal for such an investigation...
Authoress Radclyffe Hall has said: "I have studied abnormal psychology for 13 years, as a member of the Council for the Society for Psychical Research, and as a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society. Those who read my book need not be told that there is nothing salacious in it, and that it is written very gravely and without offense. . . . When I speak of female inverts I do not mean perverts. . . . Many times the invert is a great artist, highly sensitive and intelligent. She would contribute much to society if she were not despised and abused...
...business of the conference was, as must be, general. Research engineers and aerodynamists met and discussed their technical problems. Transport men heard papers on airgraphics (meteorology), airways, airports, organization, operation and maintenance of airlines, radio directors, electro-magnetic compasses, altitude finding by radio echo. Private flying-clubs, a successful stimulant to aviation in England, are beginning to appear in the U. S. Significant was the observation that air travel now costs the passenger only 14? a mile against railroad fare of 4? a mile...