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...which gives special weight to his opinions on this subject. The professorship-which he holds was established from a fund left by a wealthy spiritualist. The purpose of the professorship was the investigation of spiritualism, and similar phenomena. It is a new and interesting field for investigation, and the wide-spread interest which the subject has aroused, has led to the establishment in England of a society for Psychical Research. A branch of this society has recently been formed in America. The society has already made some interesting investigations, and Professor Fullerton is one of the best authorities in America...
...support them, is by no means a flattering complaint to Harvard enterprise. It cannot be allowed to continue. It must be seen that success in a college publication is entirely dependent upon the interest manifested in it by the college. However talented the board of editors may be, however wide and comprehensive the scope of the publication, it is simply impossible to keep any paper alive without the interested and enthusiastic support of the students. Other smaller colleges support as many, or more papers, which are of an inferior merit, than Harvard. The success which is vouchsafed to many...
Brutal, gashed, and swollen faces; wide gaping mouths, which opened for the last time to utter the death-shriek, and are now fixed forever in rigid agony; jagged, discolored teeth, sunken cheeks, knitted brows, dead, sodden eyes, awful contortions, ghastly smiles, hideous leers, faces of men and faces of women, faces of the young and faces of the old, faces which reek with the slime of years of vice and misery and despair; faces which Dante, groping among the damned, might have dragged from hideous, steaming depths of Lethean mud, and flung forth to front the unwilling...
...Bicycle Club has within a year or two gained for itself the reputation of being among the live and wide-awake institutions of the college. We had always supposed that this reputation was well deserved, but in this respect we must have been mistaken, if the interest in the annual dinner to-morrow is any criterion. The committee has made arrangements for a dinner of at least twenty-five or thirty members; guests have been invited, several of whom have accepted; the literary festivities of the evening have been arranged by competent persons, and everything has been done to make...
...Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania should think of accepting Mr. Seybert's fund, and undertaking the investigation, it is a decidedly noteworthy event. The action of the University brings into prominence two facts about Spiritualism; The first is that the belief in Spiritualism has become so wide-spread that men of the most intelligent class are not ashamed of publicly undertaking an investigation of the testimony for the existence of spirit-communications from another world. The second fact is that, in spite of the number of Spiritualists, the material for such an investigation is both scarce and unsatisfactory. This...