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That's a kiss in the abstract. It doesn't seem much...
...know, such a step has never been thought of by the Faculty. The general impression is that a Divinity School cannot be unsectarian, and the failure of our own to maintain this character would seem to confirm this impression. But we see no reason why the abstract questions of theology should not be taught and discussed in an unbiassed manner, as well as those of philosophy and psychology, and we trust that Harvard may succeed in proving the possibility of such a system of instruction...
...another column will be found an abstract of the discussion which was carried on in the Nation this summer in relation to the Divinity School. We cannot but think that the ground taken by the Nation is the right one, and that it was a mistake for President Eliot to come forward so prominently and solicit subscriptions for the school. We are sure that President Eliot, after having done so much to give Harvard a national position, would not intentionally take any step to diminish its claim to that position; but it certainly seems to us that his solicitation...
...other complaint which has been made. At present there is not, and there does not pretend to be, any instruction in this department. All that the instructor does is to assign a mark to each forensic and hand it back to the writer, giving in the class an abstract of what was written on each of the subjects. A student cannot find out what mark has been given him, nor are there any remarks on the returned forensic to let him know what impression it has produced on the instructor, whether he considers it good, bad or indifferent...
WITH the first number of this volume the editors of the Crimson beg to announce to their readers the introduction of a column devoted exclusively to amateur sports. The need of some short abstract of sporting news has long been felt by many men who have not the time to wade weekly through several papers like the Spirit of the Times, who yet desire to keep up with the athletic world at home and abroad. We hope our column may supply this want, and that its excellence may prove our excuse for inserting it. The information contained in it will...