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What the objectionable cake was, how it was made, and why the authorities disliked it, we shall never know. But certain it is that after this dreadful order was passed, Jacobus and Guilliemus with a taste for "Plumb Cake," must have gone to bed hungry after burning the midnight oil, or else have incurred the penalty of the college...
...there has been an actual transfer of will. 2. Mesmerism, so called from Mesmer, who first brought it into notice in Paris, in 1778. He claimed that he could cure all diseases by stroking the patient with his hands. His theory was that there was a passage of a certain fluid from one person to another, but it was disproved in 1840, by a celebrated British surgeon, who showed that a mesmeric state could be produced without contact of persons. Hypnotism, or artificial somnambulism, has now attained a scientific recognition. It is the mesmeric trance in which the so-called...
...third class of psychical phenomena was especially investigated by Baron Riechenbach. He claimed some persons possessed a certain power to see luminous effects in the dark, such as the play of light around a magnet. As the experiments were performed by one man, too much confidence must not be placed in this class. Ghosts and Apparitions. The English theory is that of mind transterence; that is, if a person thinks earnestly of another, he can cause that person to see his apparition. There is grave doubt of the reality of this class of phenomena. Spiritualistic Phenomena, (a). physical phenomena, such...
...incidental advantages to be gained is a certain amount of that preparation for journalism, the want of which is so much felt just now. The two requisites of a journalist are, a knowledge of events that are occupying public attention, and the power to write well upon them. Our theme courses furnish us with the latter, this plan affords us the chance of getting the former...
...civilization advance, sentiment and liberality of thought also advance. College students are getting to be looked upon, not as brainless, careful boys, but rather as men interested in themselves and others, in their education, and in all that concerns their education. Indeed, there is actually conceded to them a certain degree of intellect, and comprehension, mingled perhaps with a small amount of common sense. In light of these facts, we are even bold enough to suppose, to hope, that the time will be, when President Bartlett and all the other advocates of sole faculty-government will have to abandon their...