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Throughout the 1930s, Curtis Springer gave lectures throughout the midwestern United States, claiming to either to be the " Dean of Greer College ", or that he represented / attended the fictional institutions of the National Academy, The Springer School of Humanism, the American College of Doctors and Surgeons, the Westlake West Virginia College, and two non-existent osteopathy schools in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Although all his lectures were " free ", Springer would ask for donations part-way through his speech, and often attempt to sell audience members private courses in psychoanalysis for $ 25 per session.

In advertisements for his appearances, he would often follow his name with M. D., N. D., D. O.

or Ph.

D.