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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club on "The present condition of Psychical Research," by Prof. Geo. S. Fullerton, will undoubtedly attract a large audience. Prof. Fullerton of the University of Pennsylvania, occupies a unique position 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...
Eighty dollars must be raised before Monday next, or the society will that day cease to do business. There are three sources from which the money may come; from men who have not yet joined the society, from old members who have as yet subscribed nothing to the voluntary fund, and from old members who will increase their present subscriptions. These latter ought not, if there were any alternative, to be called on to contribute now. They have already given liberally; and there are others, probably, who will derive benefit from the society's continuance, who have not subscribed...
That somebody should endow a fund, as Mr. Henry Seybert of Philadelphia has recently done, for investigating Spiritualism is not so very surprising. Spiritualism is by no means the least plausible of current beliefs; and, even if it were such, rich men would be as liable as any one else to credulity over it. When so sober-minded a body of men, however, as the 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...
...Executive Committee of the Longfellow Memorial Fund.- Gentlemen: The president and fellows of Harvard College desire me to thank you for your gift of a copy of the bust of Henry Wadsworth longfellow, which has recently been placed, through your agency, in Westminister Abbey. The university welcomes this pledge of the literary fellowship between England and America, which the labors of the poet you have so honorably commemorated did much to promote. The bust has arrived in safety; and will be placed, with an inscription telling whence it came, in the library, among other mementoes of benefactors and eminent graduates...
Financially, the Annex is in good condition. The receipts from tuition, which, by the way is $200, $50 more than the tuition at the college, are sufficient to pay all, except about $4000 of the expenses. This deficit is met by a fund, which is now about $75,000. When this fund reaches $100,000, the Annex will become a recognized part of Harvard University, and the young lady graduates will receive, instead of a certificate stating that they have satisfactorily completed a course of study at "The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women"-the incorporate name...