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...There is, however, really no more impropriety in compelling an irreverent young man to take the communion, no matter what he may think or feel about it, than to attend daily public prayers. The former is, undoubtedly, more shocking in its external aspect, but both are acts of worship, and to anybody who remembers what religious people consider worship to be, there can be no difference worth mention, between compulsory performance in one case, and in the other. Compulsory communion has long been given up in England, both for young and old, and people look back on it, now, with...
...recent events have changed the aspect of the political horizon. Blaine and Logan have been elected to stay at home, and Cleveland has fulfilled the hopes of his party. The Democratic students now have their innings, and arrangements are now being perfected for a jollification which shall totally eclipse the previous efforts of the college...
...this is the general aspect of affairs outside, in the public thoroughfares, how much worse is it in the privacy of men's rooms where the watchful eye of the public does not enter! What harrowing scenes could be witnessed between...
...spite of the threatening aspect of the weather, a goodly number of students witnessed the start of the third Hare and Hounds run of the season. At a few minutes after four, the Hares, Webster '87, and Dudley '87, started from Matthews. Seven minutes after the master, Russel '87, led a pack of nine hounds in pursuit. The course led across the yard, through Divinity Avenue, and into Norton woods where the scent was lost for a few moments. The course now led towards the Somerville bleachery, and over Winter hill where the omnipresent "mucker" had laid false trails...
...loss of small articles from the Gymnasium and Memorial has come to be such a common occurrence during the past few years that we now pay but small attention to the complaints made of such thefts. This state of affairs, however, has now assumed an aspect which renders any further tolerance far from wise. During the present week a watch and quite a considerable sum of money were deliberately stolen from a locker in the Gymnasium. The theft must have been the work of some one who it intimately acquainted with the interior arrangements of the Gymnasium and with...