1862--class Report--1912. Class Of 'sixty-two Harvard University, Fiftieth Anniversary, Cambridge, June Twentieth, Nineteen Twelve
1862--class Report--1912. Class Of 'sixty-two Harvard University, Fiftieth Anniversary, Cambridge, June Twentieth, Nineteen Twelve

Author: Harvard College (1780- ) Class of 1862

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021013842

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This class report from the Harvard College class of 1862 provides a unique window into the lives of the graduates of this prestigious institution, as they marked their fiftieth anniversary. Charles Pickard and Ed Ware offer a wealth of insights and anecdotes, from their time at Harvard and beyond. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Common Phantoms
Common Phantoms

Author: Alicia Puglionesi

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1503612783

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Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of investigator emerged to seek the science behind such phenomena. With new technologies like the telegraph collapsing the boundaries of time and space, an explanation seemed within reach. As Americans took up psychical experiments in their homes, the boundaries of the mind began to waver. Common Phantoms brings these experiments back to life while modeling a new approach to the history of psychology and the mind sciences. Drawing on previously untapped archives of participant-reported data, Alicia Puglionesi recounts how an eclectic group of investigators tried to capture the most elusive dimensions of human consciousness. A vast though flawed experiment in democratic science, psychical research gave participants valuable tools with which to study their experiences on their own terms. Academic psychology would ultimately disown this effort as both a scientific failure and a remnant of magical thinking, but its challenge to the limits of science, the mind, and the soul still reverberates today.