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...that they are merely a few of the "doubting Thomases" who make up the over-whelming majority of a skeptic world. Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle have not yet persuaded the rest of humanity of the reality of ectoplasm, even though they have secured many staunch followers for their ideas. Nobody really knows one way or the other that is admitted. Everyone is interested in the idea of thought-transference and future existence--man may be said to have incurably necromantic tendencies--but unless the knightly necromancers establish something definitely soon, good old necromancy...
...himself abruptly into issues and situations, McAdoo is letting no herbage spring up under his feet. Hardly had Secretary Mellon's tax plan been announced, when he sprang up with the cry of "Bonus first." No one has been permitted to doubt for an instant that he is a staunch Dry, nor to question that he regards the railroad question as abominably managed by the Administration...
...writer of the communication which appeared in yesterday morning's CRIMSON poses as a staunch Harvard man distressed at tendencies which he believes exist at Harvard and which he supposes are contrary to the spirit "of the founder and those that helped in placing the university on its feet". Nothing could be more unlike the Harvard spirit which he glorifies, than the narrow and bigoted argument which he advances. If he hopes thus to make Harvard a "Protestant college", he will soon find that the University has ideals which transcend race and religion and which resent such bigotry and medievalism...
...writer of the communication poses as a staunch Harvard man. But it is not at all certain that he is not a charlatan even in his pose. His rather illegible signature was deciphered as J. E. Sinclair '91. But investigation yesterday disclosed that there was no such man either in the Class of 1891 or in any other class and there is apparently nobody in the Class of 1891 whose name bears resemblance to the signature on the letter...
Dostoievski, George Eliot, Browning, Cervantes, Rabelais, Whitman, James Joyce, James Barrie, Amy Lowell, Kipling, Conrad, Dickens, Scott, Wordsworth, Wells - all have their staunch supporters for the poison ivy wreath. Some of the critics give reasons. Comments Thomas Beer upon St. Paul, his second nominee : " They left him alone with the Christian church and he made it what it is today." Upon Blaise Pascal : " I am told by one young enough to be an authority that ' Pascal's sad, burning thought descends to the inmost seat of being.' Let it work while I sleep." Ernest Boyd describes...