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...This man is Dennison - whose fame was wide-spread...
...state of society, however, was very uncivilized. "Simple crimes like murder and theft," when once proved were quickly dealt with. There was a brief period of a wide-spread, well organized society, yet it did not last, for it was not founded on moral instinct which is a necessary foundation of all stable order. The treason of carelessness was the greatest sin of the early Californian, and for it he was obliged to severely atone...
...society" teams-nor of the two nines of Memorial Hall wait ers. This state of affairs must be gratifying enough to the faculty, whose aim it is to get as many students as possible to take regular exercise. Aside from the faculty view of the situation, however, this wide-spread awakening in the base-ball interest, must re-act favorably upon the prospects of the sport next year...
...which gives special weight to his opinions on this subject. The professorship-which he holds was established from a fund left by a wealthy spiritualist. The purpose of the professorship was the investigation of spiritualism, and similar phenomena. It is a new and interesting field for investigation, and the wide-spread interest which the subject has aroused, has led to the establishment in England of a society for Psychical Research. A branch of this society has recently been formed in America. The society has already made some interesting investigations, and Professor Fullerton is one of the best authorities in America...
...Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania should think of accepting Mr. Seybert's fund, and undertaking the investigation, it is a decidedly noteworthy event. The action of the University brings into prominence two facts about Spiritualism; The first is that the belief in Spiritualism has become so wide-spread that men of the most intelligent class are not ashamed of publicly undertaking an investigation of the testimony for the existence of spirit-communications from another world. The second fact is that, in spite of the number of Spiritualists, the material for such an investigation is both scarce and unsatisfactory. This...