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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...recess is based on the experience of the preachers to the University, who have had for many years opportunity to study the conditions of church attendance. The worshippers at the evening services have represented the permanent residents of the city in much larger proportion than the student body. The fact that the students do not attend in larger numbers naturally suggested that it was because the hour was inconvenient. The change is, of course, not intended to drive away the people of Cambridge who have been accustomed to attend on Sunday evenings; but rather to meet the convenience...
...provision for the religious worship of the students must include a recognition of the fact that a considerable percentage of them live within easy travelling distance of Cambridge, and that these men will naturally go home over each week-end. Of the many who remain, some will establish relations with churches of their own denomination in Cambridge or Boston, though on account of the transitory character of the student community this number will never be large. Some there will always be who will not go to church at all, and some who go only on exceptional occasions, being discouraged from...
This year with the stimulus of intercollegiate competition in basketball eliminated there will naturally be less interest in that sport. A transfer of support to hockey may reasonably be expected to take place. As a sport hockey is undoubtedly superior to basketball, and the fact that it is played in the open air makes it more valuable as a means of exercise...
...than its quality. Even geographically reckoned, the range of subject-matter is passing great; from China to the shores of Lake Michigan; from Canada to the other world of Orpheus. This is as it should be; the undergraduate mind has ever felt free to embrace the world entire, both fact and fancy. One expects to find, however, in that embrace more real grip than is evident in the present instance. With but few exceptions, the pieces have the fussiness of old age, without the latter's choice reflectiveness; they lack the urgent passion of youth...
...will see how powerful has been the impression of its professors upon the outside world. My own experience in Cleveland, some years ago, when as a lawyer, I became interested in civic affairs, confirms this most strongly. Professors may be theoretical, but it is largely by reason of the fact that they are unhampered by many of the things that hamper men in other relations of life, that they are able to accomplish things...