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...editorial columns. In accordance with this good old custom we again take our stand and diny that Harvard is any worse than the rest of the world in religious matters. Just how this rumor begins it is hard to conceive. Probably it is owing to the attempt made to abolish chapel, and to the fact that certain men with infidel views go forth from here every year. But these persons so vigorous in their cries of alarm, would say fully as much as the students if they were taught that the only way to make men worship...
Harvard was the last of all the colleges to abolish Sunday morning prayers, which was done in 1874. The more modern and uneventful history of our chapel services, every one is acquainted with, and it is not worth the time to say anything about them...
...real truth is that the college has always been, and now permanently is, a gymnasium where the young have to learn the necessities of actual life in its comprehensive scope, and realize their capacities and limitations under conditions the best calculated to suppress undue conceit and awaken or abolish dullness...
...matter of curiosity to see how immediate has been the effect of the measures adopted by the Tennis Association to abolish the "shacker" nuisance. It is true that there has been no attempt to make and enforce any rule. The simple request that a certain regulated scale of fees be adopted, and that no boys be employed except when found at certain specified stations, seems to have had the desired result. Not only have the numbers of idle small boys who used to infest every part of the college grounds greatly diminished, but those that have remained seem to have...
...rule against professionals, therefore, the faculty will be compelled either to do injustice to many, or to act inconsistently with the strict interpretation of the rule. Everybody understands by this time Harvard's position on the side of pure athletics. Would it not be the policy of wisdom to abolish arbitrary rules and regulations, and let college athletics regulate themselves, subject, of course, to occasional restraint, in case there is evidence of abuse of the privilege. This is the way the question appears to one who takes a great interest in it, though not an athlete himself. Please pardon...