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...clear last week that psychologists, physicists, mathematicians and kibitzing outsiders are beginning to line up in earnest on one side or the other of a prickly question which has already attracted wide general interest: Is Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine right, or is he wrong, in assuming that the evidence amassed by him at Duke University is sufficient to prove the existence of telepathy, clairvoyance and associated faculties of the human mind grouped under the head of "ExtraSensory Perception...
...field of research, which he calls Parapsychology, Dr. Rhine is the most conspicuous university investigator in the U. S. His tools and methods are essentially simple. Prime piece of apparatus is a pack of cards bearing five designs: a circle, a star, a plus sign, a rectangle, a band of three wavy lines. The pack consists of 25 cards, five cards of each design. To observe clairvoyance, he asks his subjects to identify the cards one by one as the pack lies face down. To observe telepathy they are asked to call cards imagined in the mind of another person...
...chance alone five hits in 25 guesses could be expected. But in Dr. Rhine's great mass of recorded experiments there are long series of trials in which the hits are much higher than chance expectation-seven, eight, even nine hits per 25 tries. According to his mathematics the probability that chance might account for one subject's score alone is one in 100 quintillion, and when all the scores are taken together the figures are so fantastic that chance is ruled out altogether. Dr. Rhine tried out a well-known British "medium,'' found that...
...Treaty of Versailles (TIME, Feb. 8). Last week Il Duce set the Italian press to clamoring that Britain and France have now denied "equality" to Italy, demanding that the Italian navy be given an equal share in any patrol of the Mediterranean. As these editorials were read beyond the Rhine, German editors began to grind out reams of comment extremely favorable to Italy and in terms of her right to "equality" and "honor." This was the kind of talk which most easily fires Nazis and they fairly ate it up. Soon even the London Times, frequently pro-German, sympathetically observed...
...Celts, an ancient people, started somewhere near the banks of the Rhine, spread loosely through Europe, crossed the Pyrenees into Spain, and reached Ireland and England only a few years before the Roman invasion of 55-A. D. They have a basic language. Today linguists agree that the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and Breton languages are related to the Celtic. The Basques, however, a mountainous folk, were little influenced by the Celtic invasion of Spain in the 6th Century B. C., have today a completely unrelated language...