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...younger generation irreligious? Doubtless the external forms of worship are dying out, and along with them is passing away the pious belief in arbitrary dogma. But do these symptoms really signify that science and philosophy are taking the place of religion? Do they not rather denote a change in the outward manifestations of religious spirit, while this very spirit itself remains unimpaired? The instinctive belief in an Unknowable is deep-rooted in every human being. In an unconscious way even the most skeptical scientist is religious...
...browse about shelves untroubled by a clerk at his elbow. Although students here are as fond of reading as those across the sea, there are no counterparts in this country of book stores near Charing Cross, London, or those of Oxford and Cambridge, or the cases of books along the Seine. Here even the library stacks are closed to students, and yet one of the surest ways to become interested in books is to go directly to well-stocked shelves and to discover unknown titles and authors...
...Brick Row Print and Book Shop" will be conducted along lines similar to those of the well-known book and print shops of England and of New York. E. Byrne Hackett, for the past six years director of the Yale University Press, has resigned to accept the management of the shop. Mr. Hackett will continue his connection with the University Press in an advisory capacity...
...singing will be conducted along the same lines as last year. Soon after mid-years, dormitory leaders will be appointed who will have charge of the singing in the hall. Each hall will meet once every week, when songs will be rehearsed, and the season will end a few weeks before the final examination period. The interest taken by the members in the halls will determine whether a final contest between the three dormitories will be held. The final contest will be made the centre of a jubilee, similar to last year's, at which a trophy, which has been...
...believe that President Lowell is working along the right lines when he says that a Harvard Battalion will not have great military value and I would like to back up his suggestion that more Harvard men join the militia...