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This is followed by "The Facts Concerning Owen Preston," by C. C. Whiting, in which the author tells in a very interesting way a story of occult power exercised by a man, once a Harvard student, over a young girl by means of a locket in the man's possession but which had belonged to the young lady...
...present age some knowledge of the laws of nature is an essential part of the mental outfit which no cultivated man should lack. He need not know much, but he ought to know enough to learn more. To him the forces of nature ought not to be an occult mystery, but a chain of causes and effects with which, if not wholly familiar, he can at least claim acquaintance; and the same principle applies to every other leading branch of knowledge...
...students is certainly to be desired, but it is well for the over-confident undergraduate to remember that very likely his conversation is not so instructive or intertaining to his favored professor that the latter can afford to give up all his time to the fathoming of the occult depth of that conversation which is thrown so lavishly both upon his working and his leisure hours...
...night the last lecture in the series on Health and Strength will be delivered in Sever 11. These lectures, which have been given weekly throughout the winter and spring, have been valuable ones in their field. The lecturer has succeeded in dealing with scientific and occult questions in a manner that has been clear and unpedantic, yet withal accurate and scholarly. To many of us these lectures have been of great practical usefulness. The harmful effects which are produced by ignorance, and a lack of proper care for our physical well-being have been put before our eyes so forcibly...
...somewhat surprised to find that the "Cyclist and Wheel Annual" is entered here under the head of "Law and Sociology." What occult relation there may exist between the two subjects it is beyond our powers to divine...