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...athletic teams. They enter no candidate in local beauty contests. For the most part, they permit no women in the club houses. But most important, the spirit of a Harvard club is entirely different from a fraternity or even from its counterparts in the Ivy League. The clubs depend on a quiet acceptance in the College for removed from "Hell Weeks" and Tap Days. Final clubs, like those oft-lampooned organizations for London or New York businessmen, have no reason for existing. And they seek no purpose. They have sprung up over the years for the enjoyment or convenience...
...these depend, according to Rhine, upon the "psi" factor, which is noticeable in about one person in five. For some who do not show it, he invokes a "psi-missing" factor to explain why their clairvoyance is below par. For the brute creation, Rhine now postulates "anpsi" (animal psi), which may or may not be the same as human...
...stage directions, Stanley Holloway leads the cast as the liquor-loveing philanthropist. He is effective in several of the early scenes, but finally succumbs to the thinness of the story. Hugh Griffith playing the Thunderbolt's fireman delivers the most convincing performances. Unfortunately, only a few laughs depend upon his part...
Down below the surface two miles or so, the temperature can be determined from specially designed thermometers which have been sunk into bore holes. Estimates below that depend on the knowledge of the rock forms. Such investigations have enabled the scientists to systematize knowledge of the conductivity of any rocks from mineral composition...
Besides using Joe the Baptist to point up such ticklish Christian problems as race relations, Corder draws a lesson from the fact that Joe can do nothing by himself. Says he: "We are all like Joe ... All of us depend on God for all that we do. Without God we cannot amount to much, but if we let God take the controls of our lives and speak through us, then we can amount to something ... I hope that God has talked through me and through...