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Like other groups, Spiritualists are incorporated where state laws require it. Hence they may perform religious marriage ceremonies (which do not differ from those of other Christian sects). Spiritualists resent being classed with fortune-tellers and crystal-gazers (while professional magicians delight thus to classify them). Church services are usually on Sunday night, with hymn-singing, invocation, Bible-reading, lecture and-central feature which Spiritualists regard as their "Communion"-a séance. With the minister or a visiting medium officiating, messages are received from the other world. The congregation may applaud, chat. Cheeriness is the note...
Deft Sir Patrick Hastings soon had the Court's lips twitching. He read aloud the more puckish portions of the advertisement describing the efforts of a Blennerhassett to make a yo-yo perform for his children. He began with "deprecatory condescension. . . . The yo-yo was recalcitrant. . . . First it would and then it wouldn't. But the Blennerhassett blood was up. He was determined to make the little devil on a string do its stuff...
...Mattern should be allowed to perform a dangerous and bootless flight for Chicago's glory does not seem clear. But the enthusiast for variety should not condemn our aviators without a hearing, for in comparison with other daredevils they have displayed a real fecundity of invention. Mr. Brody jumped, and seldom featly, from all our great bridges, and there was in his contortious a lack of grace monotonous to all but the local Chambers of Commerce. Many barrels ricocheted over Niagara Falls before Buffalo was convinced that the idea had lost its original savor...
...Keith Brown, Yale jumper who last week helped beat Harvard for the Big Three championship; Bill Bonthron, Princeton's promising half-miler who wears such handsome clothes that they have twice been stolen from his locker at track meets: these are three of the track athletes who will perform in this week's Intercollegiate Championships at Cambridge, Mass, which as usual Stanford or Southern California is favored to win. They and the other entrants in the Intercollegiates last week had reason to consider with awe another athlete who-until he helped Michigan win the Western Conference title last...
With the decreased operating budget of the University, however, it is felt by the University to be good policy to dispense with the office. Plans are not yet definite as to who will perform the present duties of the Adviser in Religion, but it is believed that they will once more be assumed by the Board of Preachers...