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...small herd of psychologists, mathematicians and graduate students at North Carolina's Duke University, headed by Dr., Joseph Banks Rhine, believe they have proved the existence of Extra-Sensory Perception ("ESP"), which means telepathy and clairvoyance, by a long series of card-matching experiments. A great number of psychologists and mathematicians elsewhere do not consider that the Duke experiments prove ESP at all.So the dead cats hurled into the Duke camp have been many and pungent...
...tremendous growth of rivalry between each of the seven red-brick units. This feeling, which some like to associate with the growth of nationalism in continental Europe, has recently taken on amazing proportions, so much so that Mill Street now serves a function very comparable to that of the Rhine River in keeping bitter enemies from one another's throat...
Perhaps a few words regarding the phenomenal rise of prejudiced emotional opposition to the results of Dr. Rhine and other experimenters in the field of parapsychology may be in order at this time, following the article in TIME, April...
...Rhine is right, the implications are immediate that much that has been taught by the orthodox psychologist is bunk...
...orthodox psychologists maintain . a unique position as being the exponents of a shaky, very materialistic psychology, based on the already discarded concepts of the physicist and the biologist. Their position is now almost untenable, due to the confirmation of Rhine's findings at Columbia, the University of Colorado, N. Y. U., Harvard, Bonn University, Groningen, and Fordham...