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...Arthur Conan Doyle will undoubtedly attract wide interest in his series of lectures on spiritualism; and almost as surely, he will attract a large amount of criticism. For spiritualism, almost more than any other subject, has been exploited for long centuries; in Sir Arthur's wake there will almost certainly spring up a number of fraudulent mediums. This is apparently an evil which necessarily accompanies any kind of popular interest in an idea difficult to understand. In which last category all new ideas fall; the astrologers, phrenologists, palmists, and quack doctors who pursue their business profitably even in this 'enlightened...
...safe place to live in" and the daily press echoing with the announcement that in the last 98 days there have been 91 murders in the Metropolitan district, the so-called "Crime Wave" is with us again. Is it the effect of the post-war reaction, reflecting general world wide lawlessness as a result of renewed acquaintance with the automatic? Are there laws enough at present against crime, or is the present machinery adequate to enforce them? Does the flaring publicity attendant on each daring hold-up serve to keep crime in check, or does it merely add fuel...
...unusual interest from many points of view. Opening in the courtyard of a little inn just outside of Paris, in the Spring of the year 1813, the action of the first act traces the phenomenal rise to popularity of the famous French song-writer, Beranger, through the immediate nation-wide singing of his songs; his meeting with Desangiers and the attention and honor bestowed upon him by the latter and his friends in the "Caveau", and, above all, through his dramatic "reconnaisance" with Talleyrand, one of the world's greatest diplomats...
With three Freshman eights on the river, the objective of the next few weeks practice will be the contest with the M. I. T. Freshmen on April 29. The large size of the yearling squad is a decided asset, affording as it does a wide range of choice to the coaches in the selection of material, and giving each man the opportunity of advancement into a higher eight...
Worthy citizens who have always proclaimed the superiority of America in all things, and as an example pointed with pride to the infinitely more wide-awake progressiveness of "our press", will step back aghast at reports from the battle of the papers now raging in London. To the vulgar eye, that threadhare old scarcecrow, "British Conservatism," has pulled himself together and is working off the effects of a violent "jag." The shades of Addison and Steele, returned to earth, if they survived half a day in London traffic, would shrink away in horror at the prospect of the press...