Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college men. The former appreciation of the value of the humanities in producing a well-rounded out view of life and men must be revived. Education is the support of a democracy, it is true; but it must be that education which not only informs us of the innumerable phenomena of science, but which gives to us, through an acquaintance of life and letters in the past, a comprehensive knowledge of the arts and nobler things of life. Unless this knowledge is acquired in the years of college life, it is forever barred to those who have not sufficiently estimated...
...acting. At present the best opportunities for this line of investigation exist in the medical schools. Over a century ago a great Frenchman declared that medicine should be the basis for all public instruction. It is possible for the medical schools to give modified courses to students of social phenomena...
Professor Robert D. Ward, who recently resigned from the meteorology department of the University to enlist his services with the Government, has been appointed to give instruction in atmospheric phenomena to the prospective aviators enrolled in the aero course established at Technology. His work will be carried on in co-operation with the War Department under orders of which he lately made a visit to Toronto to make a study of the instruction which is there being given at the Cadet School of the Royal Flying Corps. Professor Ward has become a member of the teaching staff of the Institute...
...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 the existence of God without proving immortality of the soul." After his address Professor Hyslop...
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...