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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Meetings will be sold by Mr. A. A. Waterman, at the office of the Co-operative Society, on Wednesday, March 11th. The sale will begin at 9 A.M. Tickets for reserved seats will not be sold to any but members of the association, who present their membership tickets in person. There will be no reserved seats at the first meeting. Not more than five tickets in all, for reserved seats, will be sold to any one member of the association...
...Research. After a few introductory remarks, he proceeded to divide psychical phenomena into five classes. 1. Asomatous, e. g., communication between mind and mind, apart from the ordinary way of communication. Chance will not account for this class of phenomena; for too many experiments have been performed by responsible persons, Prof. Barrett of Dublin, in particular. He has shown that in 31 cases there has been an actual transfer of will. 2. Mesmerism, so called from Mesmer, who first brought it into notice in Paris, in 1778. He claimed that he could cure all diseases by stroking the patient with...
...third class of psychical phenomena was especially investigated by Baron Riechenbach. He claimed some persons possessed a certain power to see luminous effects in the dark, such as the play of light around a magnet. As the experiments were performed by one man, too much confidence must not be placed in this class. Ghosts and Apparitions. The English theory is that of mind transterence; that is, if a person thinks earnestly of another, he can cause that person to see his apparition. There is grave doubt of the reality of this class of phenomena. Spiritualistic Phenomena, (a). physical phenomena, such...
LOST.- Will the person who took a silk umbrella by mistake from the rack in the Auditor's office, Sunday night, please return it to Mr. B. Clarke, at table 3, or 23 Felton Hall...
COMMENCEMENT PARTS.Writers of Commencement Parts will kindly submit their subjects in writing to Mr. Briggs, 56 Buckingham street, before March 7. After examining these subjects, Mr. Briggs will appoint hours for meeting the writers in person...