[Ads-l] Antedating of "Extrasensory"

[Shapiro, Fred]

extrasensory (OED 1934)

1931 J. B. Rhine _Letter to Walter Franklin Prince_ 1 July in _J. B. Rhine, Letters 1923-1939_ (2021) 76  We made a small step in the history of psychical research here in our department this year, by granting to a student a Master's degree on a thesis of purely psychical research material. His subject was "Extra-Sensory Cognition," an expression I am using to throw the closed-minded critic off the scent.

Fred Shapiro

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