Word: magic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...renew, perhaps for the last time, those bonds of fellowship which death alone can sever. The happy Senior, however, turns instinctively towards Class Day as his day of days. The soft air of June, the bright and happy faces of his fair friends, the countless throng of visitors, the magic-like appearance of the yard, all combine to form a picture which though years will soon efface, affords for the moment the fullest enjoyment...
...dinner of the Amherst Alumni Association of Boston held recently stereoptican views of the college were shown by a magic lantern...
Following is the programme of the Symphony Concert to be given in Sanders Theatre tonight at 7.45. Overture, "King Manfred," Reinecke; Aria from "The Magic Flute," Mozart; Serenade for Strings, Volkmaun; Songs; Scotch Symphony, Mendelssohn. Soloist, Miss Alice Wentworth...
...scientific or supernatural; miracle, oracle, cure by faith, magic, sorcery. II. Scientific or natural; 1. Physical; animal magnetism, mesmerism. 2. Psychical; hypnotism, suggestion. Not all are suggestion, but suggestion in all; "hypnotic suggestion" best describes it in a name. The many names for the one thing are result of the many forms and degrees of the hypnotic state; this variety, as great as that of persons, makes it all the more fundamental for psychology. Hypnotism is not imagination but the result of imagination; imagination is not an imaginary fact; history is so full of it that we are suspicious...
...will deny that he was the greatest expresser the world has ever seen. He remains to this time the world's greatest achievement. To adapt a phase of Sir Richard Stelle's, we may say, that to know Shakespeare is a liberal education - a revelation of truth. The magic of his genius will confer a blessing upon the young and old alike, and you will find in his works whatever you seek - provided you are searching for truth...