Word: scepticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief about that will occur to many, however, will concern the practicability of a program which has sprung, so to speak, fully armed from the head of Dr. Hutchins. The sceptic can reasonably be allowed his questions as to the maturity of this sudden revival of medieval scholasticism, and raised eyebrows must be expected at such parts of the curriculum as the public dissection of an animal, whose modern practice might be slightly straining a tradition. But Harvard should vigilantly watch this departure in education in this small laboratory and be ready to use anything practical which may come...
...second item is indefinable. It is a metal contrivance consisting of a large rounded case, a long shaft, and a few wheels. The first janitor says that it is a mowing machine while the sceptic claims it is the start of an automobile...
...first was an enormous electrical appliance. One janitor, in the know about the science of electricity, calls the work a "brain-tester," while another janitor, a sceptic, firmly believes the gadget is a do luxe Sing-Sing model of an electric chair...
...family, he spends about $5,000 yearly on his researches. He has acquired 14,000 volumes, some of them rare, on every phase of his hobby from talking animals to stage wizardry. He started doing magic tricks at the age of 8, published a psychic play called The Sceptic at 17. In 1925 he founded and became director of the National Laboratory for Psychical Research, which he later turned over to the London Council for Psychical Investigation. He would like to see London University institute a chair of psychic research with himself as professor, has offered the university his library...
...stabilization. It appears, however, that the bait tastes quite differently to different palates. Though the farmers may be slightly mollified, Wall Street is not. "The money-changers" are very unhappy about the whole thing. It goes against the natures of such simple idealists to be forced into the sceptic's position, nostrils dilated at the unpleasant aroma of a rat; but their hard business heads suspect that "managed currency" is just another slogan for that hardly defined but always suspicious phenomenon: inflation. The President is coming face to face with the sad fact that farmer and banker are betting...