Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gone sturdily forward in the face of the most discouraging sort of apathy, and in spite of repeated disappointments have kept the idea alive. Such is the early history of many a well conceived and worthy enterprise. The CRIMSON believes in the ideal of University thought expressed through the medium of debating. The expression of opinion, verbally and in public assembly is an old and dignified custom. It is an accomplishment requiring both courage and skill, and an occupation worthy of the highest intellectual and social orders...
Last week, through the medium of Major General Sir C. E. Caldwell, two volumes were published in London entitled Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, His Life and Diaries. As was to be expected, their contents were plentifully interlarded with vigorous attacks on the statesmen of the War and armistice periods, most of whom are still celebrities living in shadow of fame...
They need not have come. Prof. Thurston, pleasant-spoken gentleman soon won over his audience, told how many a so-called medium had asked him for tricks to fool gullibles. "But," admitted Magician rhurston, "I was quoted incorrectly. All spiritualistic phenomena cannot be reproduced with a small watch. There is an intelligent psychic force which can manifest itself but everything done at a stated time and for money is likely to be trickery." Thus mollified, the spiritualists beamed kindly up at Mr. Thurston in the pulpit. A collection was about to be taken when a member of the magician...
...Well, it was one of those medium-sized ones with the top: the kind you can set on a table I guess, too, they cost about fifty dollars when I got it about eleven years...
...trip is made in alternate summers, and counts as a half-course for students of Harvard College who take part. The region studied includes beautiful Lake Louise, pictured in one of Sargent's paintings. The course is considered especially advantageous for concentrators in geology, since it provides an invaluable medium for out-door experimentation. This year the expedition will study geological formations in the Adirondacks...