Word: countersigns
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...made with his wife just before she died eight years ago. Both had been interested in spiritualism. While the woman lay ill they made a pact that if she died she would try to communicate with him through a medium. To defeat fakery, they fixed upon a countersign, wrote it down, sealed it in an envelope. It consisted of the date of Dr. Gilbert's birth, of his wife's, of their daughter...
...Gilbert died. The Doctor offered a reward of $500 to any medium who could give him a message from her-certified of course by the countersign. First 139 mediums tried for the money, but to none of them had the dead Mrs. Gilbert communicated the password. More letters began to come in. Dr. Gilbert asked the co-operation of Editor Wright. The strange abracadabras that the editor read aloud in the hushed room in the Woolworth Building were the attempts of 284 mediums to prove that they had talked to a dead woman...
...COUNTERSIGN -- "Down With Pussyfoot...
Yesterday we published a brief summary of a petition to the Overseers from several prominent New York gentlemen asking for certain changes in the regulation that the president of Harvard University shall simply countersign the diplomas which are to be given by Radcliffe College. The spirit which leads men of such eminence, many of them not Harvard graduates, to take such an interest in this matter, is most significant and most encouraging for the cause of the higher education of women. No one will deny this. To the petition itself there will be no objection. It is pretty safe...
...Voted, That in case the president and fellows of Harvard College accept the powers conferred by the foregoing vote, the said president and fellows be requested to empower the president of Harvard University to countersign the diplomas of this corporation and to affix the seal of Harvard University to said diplomas...