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Last evening a spiritualistic seance was held in Lyceum Hall, which was highly successful except that the pastor of a certain Cambridge parish shrewdly guessed the way the feats were performed and gave the whole thing away in a manner exceedingly painful for the somewhat corpulent medium...
...Peabody on Dan. 6 chap. 10 verse, "His window being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem." "The way a man habitually faces is the great point of importance in the church, in the age and in everyone of us. Nearness will not bind, distance will not separate us except as our frontage, our landscape is alike or different. Everyone may look toward other far-off spiritual landscapes, although he have first to cut away from before his window the tangled vine of the perplexing world. Open your spiritual window and send your prayers to God and His sunshine will flood...
ARTICLE II. - Section 3. No college other than those named shall be admitted to membership except by unanimous consent of the League...
ARTICLE III. - Section 1. The officers shall consist of a president, to be elected from the college holding the championship, a vice-president, a secretary and treasurer, and a Judiciary Committee. All officers shall be elected by ballot, except the Judiciary Committee...
...attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned out, probably for the first time, in the campaign torch-light procession in support of Lincoln. On that occasion, in order to have a designating cheer, the 'Rah!' was adopted. Probably...