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...criticism of Dr. Doyle's argument, however, there seems no occasion for surprise that his logic is not always perfect. The author of Sherlock Holmes may or may not be right about the spirit world, but it is hard to understand why he should be generally rated as a master of scientific deduction because he invented a fictional character purporting to be such...
...actual life Dr. Doyle, has not succeeded in unravelling any of the great mysteries that baffle the police. Yet so powerful is the illusion exerted by his fiction that the average man persists in believing him a master of inference. By a similar fallacy, or perhaps for the fun of the thing, he has been consulted by the London police regarding a number of cases, but never with very noteworthy results. Even in the realm of fiction he has not shone analytically as Poe did when he prophesied the conclusion of Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge" after reading the first chapters...
Professor E. G. Boring of Clark University will come to the University next autumn as Associate Professor of Psychology. Professor Boring is 35 years old. He graduated from Cornell in 1908, took the degree of master of arts in 1912 and of doctor of philosophy in 1914 at the same university, and remained there as instructor in psychology until 1918. During the war he served as captain in the psychological service of the army. Since 1919 he has been at Clark University, Worcester...
...being worked to a good cutting edge. No where else in the world had this implement so many specialized shapes, each form being carefully adapted to a certain type of work. It is probable that long ago, New England was the home of a group of Indians who were master workers in wood. They probably equaled if they did not surpass in this respect the wood-working tribes of the Northwest Coast...
This evening at 8 o'clock, Mr. Charles Theodore Carruth will speak at the Fogg Art Museum on "Michelangelo Buonarroti; the Master and his Works...