Fellow Wanted

One London daily headlined the story: GHOST HUNTER SOUGHT. This was the newspaper's way of saying that Cambridge University's oddest fellowship was looking for a candidate again. Cambridge was willing to grant -L-300 a year (for a maximum of two years) to a qualified and acceptable student who would investigate "some problem in psychical research."

The grant came from an old Canta-Drigian named Frank Duerdin Perrott. When Perrott first made his offer in 1919 --at the start of the spiritualistic inquiries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--the university huffily said no; it suspected a hoax. In 1927--the year Perrott died--Cambridge relented. In the 24 years since

hat time, however, only two acceptable scholars have been found. Last week, Cambridge was looking for a third fellow to carry on the quest for what Perrott denned as "the existence of supernormal powers of cognition or action in human beings in their present life, or the persistence of the human mind after bodily death."

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