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HARVARD WILLIAMS Ellison, g. g., Senecal Pickard, pt. pt., Collins Hartnett, c.pt. c.pt., Dunning Park, 1d. 1d., Ashby McSweeny, 2d. 2d., Arndt Mulliken, 3d. 3d., Wulff Hatch, c. c., Thurston McQuaid, 3a. 3a., Rieff Glenn, 2a. 2a., Lawder Dreier, 1a. 1a., Hubbard Lane, o.h. o.h., Dunn Wallace, i.h. i.h., Brown...
...United States Naval Academy Lou Young, and William Hollenback, of Pennsylvania, Jack Cates of Yale, Biff Jones of the United States Military Academy, Neil Flemming of Penn State, Reynolds Benson of Columbia, W. W. Roper of Princeton, Harry Heneage of Dartmouth, D. O. McLaughry of Brown, and G. B. Thurston of Syracuse...
...Howard Thurston, famed stage magician, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famed believer in spiritualism, last week conducted a little dispute. "Prof." Thurston had said Sir Arthur was easy to fool. Sir Arthur wrote back: "Apparently he [Mr. Thurston] thinks it easy to fool his audience, but he certainly never fooled me." Mr. Thurston eagerly replied : "Harry Houdini had himself locked in a box on the stage, a canopy was thrown over the box and Houdini appeared outside. Sir Arthur made the remark that in the presence and hearing of about 300 magicians that Houdini had disintegrated his body, slipped through...
...interest in all this arises from the fact that I myself am an Emerson graduate, one of my brothers has been graduated from the school, and a second is still in it. The last mentioned followed the herd struck too, but not with his parents' consent. M. THURSTON WARD West Lafayette, Ind. P. S. Be sure and give Purdue all credit due for its performance against dear old 'Arvard...
They need not have come. Prof. Thurston, pleasant-spoken gentleman soon won over his audience, told how many a so-called medium had asked him for tricks to fool gullibles. "But," admitted Magician rhurston, "I was quoted incorrectly. All spiritualistic phenomena cannot be reproduced with a small watch. There is an intelligent psychic force which can manifest itself but everything done at a stated time and for money is likely to be trickery." Thus mollified, the spiritualists beamed kindly up at Mr. Thurston in the pulpit. A collection was about to be taken when a member of the magician...