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...President Andrews of Brown University conducted the service in Appleton Chapel yesterday evening He took as the text for his address Psalm 107, 8th verse, "Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men." It seem unnatural the preacher said, that men should need to be exhorted to gratitude to God. Yet many devotedly pious people, while they feel the duty of gratitude, are certainly not spontaneously grateful. This is largely due to a wrong method of looking at puzzling questions of belief. Dr. Andrews then considered some...
...next term the new Osborne Recitation Hall will be ready occupation. The need of more proper rooms for lectures and recitations has been felt and this building will meet all the requirements, With this new hall and a gymnasium under way of construction two long wished for things seem all but obtained...
...submits to us a proposition for a dual league, it will be well enough to consider the matter. But to do so now surely puts us in an attitude undignified and cowardly, gives Princeton an undeserved snub, and secures for us her enmity and absolutely nothing else whatever. We seem to forget that so long as the Yale-Princeton game occurs in New York on Thanksgiving day, it will remain the great event of the year, the one that brings in most money to the athletic associations of the colleges competing, the one the great athletes who compete or look...
...Yale men seem to be very shy about expressing any opinion in regard to Harvard's withdrawal from the football league, but Captain Gil has intimated that a mass-meeting of the students will be held in a day or so at which the matter will be thoroughly discussed and Yale's action in the matter will be made known...
...motion was discussed fully and from the words of the speakers it was evident that a good many, both graduates and undergraduates, were of the opinion that immediate action would be inexpedient. Still the opinion of the majority seemed to be that Harvard should take some definite stand against professionalism in college athletics, and that the best means to attain the desired end was to withdraw unconditionally from the football league. Objections to offering to form a dual league with Yale were raised and were answered by the argument that Harvard in her stand against professionalism should not refuse...