Word: impression
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ghost appears clothed, and it can hardly be conceived that an old hat has a spirit which can leave the hat and appear at a distance. An effort has been made to explain the apparitions by "telepathy," which may be defined as the ability of one mind to impress another without the use of the usual organs of sense. Another name for this is "thought transference." In all cases of visions four points are to be noted: the state of the mind of the person who sees, the condition of the person who is seen, and the dates...
...Longfellow Memorial Fund, and that several well-known authors, among them Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, have promised to read selections from their works. The entertainment cannot fail to be interesting, and the object is so worthy that we are anxious to impress on all that it is their duty to attend. Even if attendance on the part of some is impossible, it should not prevent them from buying a ticket to forward the cause. Longfellow was so universally beloved, and was so long identified with our college, that it has now become our duty...
...Barrett Wendell's reply, terse and clear, is as follows: "Pressure of professional work forbids me to send other than the briefest answers to your questions of the 12th. I answer them in order: 1, low; 2, by a persistent endeavor to impress on newspaper men some sense of veracity; 3, something not scandalous...
...time has arrived when it becomes our duty to impress upon the management of the freshman crew the importance of impartiality in their dealings with the various candidates for the eight. From several sources the fact has come to our ears that dissatisfaction is prevalent among members of the class who are cognizant of the facts. Although some of this dissatisfaction may be justly ascribed to the disappointment of disgruntled candidates, still we feel sure that a warning will not be out of place. Men upon whose shoulders rests so much responsibility cannot be too careful in their actions...
...they do. No man in America, it is safe to say, is more fitted to lecture on "Ethics and Culture" than Professor Adler and we strongly urge all serious men to take this opportunity of hearing him. He is an excellent speaker and the charm of his delivery helps impress the excellent thoughts he gives utterance...