Word: occultations
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...Laugh, Clown, Laugh!" David Belasco, occult archimage of the theatre, has muttered incantations over an ancient artifice and whisked away the curtain cloth to disclose it as a new play of absorbing intensity. Fausto Martini's "Ridi, Pagliaccio" (Italian) is the source; the story is that of Punchinello...
...matter of tradition, the conscientious query is annually posed by the Crimson: "For what occult reason are the unfortunate inhabitants of the Yard forcibly reminded each morning, by the frenzied exultation of the bell on Harvard Hall, that the cold grey hour of seven is at hand?" As a matter of tradition too, the answer has been forthcoming "Nobody knows, and nobody seems to care--" except the long suffering Seniors who are fated to sleep, or rather to try to sleep, in the immediate vicinity of the clamor...
...Cyril Scott, the English Composer and Pianist, will lecture on "The Occult in Music" at 8.15 this evening in Paine Hall. The lecture is under the auspices of the Division of Music, and is open to the public...
...drab, monotonous years of khaki, the Senior class blossoms forth in impressive robes of funeral and scholarly hue. As of yore, the Yard will welcome those venerable togas smacking of mysterious classical antiquity as well as the geometric head gear suggestive of profound and learned erudition in the occult mysteries of oblate spheroids and tangent planes...
Until 1882 when the London Society for Psychical Research was organized for the investigation of alleged telepathy, visions and apparitions, clairvoyance, crystal gazing, automatic writing, predictions of the future, and in fact all kinds of occult phenomena, evidence on these subjects was either accepted with superstitious credulity or scornfully denied as phantasms of the ignorant imagination. Realizing that past evidence had been largely vitiated by fraud, defects of observation, prejudice, lack of technical knowledge and lapses of memory, the London Society has made the most critical and painstaking examination of every unusual case that has come before it, with...