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...records of the Corporation published in the last University Bulletin contains the story of how the attempt to suppress the third Dudleian lecture failed. The subject of this lecture, it will be remembered, is "the detecting and conviction and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpation, damnable baseness, fatal errors, abominable superstitions and other crying wickedness in their high places...
...itself we feel sure that the Overseers have hit upon the surest way to abolish the evils which undoubtedly have existed and may still exist in the society. A writer in the current issue of the Monthly has clearly stated the futility of any attempt to legislate away the evils of which complaint is made. The only sure way to control them is through student opinion. This force has already accomplished considerable in the D. K. E. The better men in the society have steadily worked for its improvement. Years ago they succeeded in making the branding at the initiation...
...which was offered by the citizens of Portland. In this game also the '66 nine was victorious, this time by a score of 40 to 13. The other classes also formed class nines at this time, but it was not till the spring of 1865 that any attempt was made to organize a nine representing the whole college...
...will hold short prayer meetings each evening of the week. The Y. M. C. A. of Harvard will act in unison with the other branches of the Association, and will hold short services in their rooms in Lawrence Hall every evening this week. These services are very simple; no attempt is made to make them more than quiet observances of the general custom of the churches, and they are conducted entirely by the students themselves. The meeting on Thursday, however, will be an exception to this rule, as Professor D. G. Lyon will conduct the service on that evening...
...city which surrounds it, while the metropolitan environment appears to be the principal reason for the strength of the professional schools of the university. The question is then whether the college shall be abolished and the entire energy of the institution devoted to the university organization proper or an attempt be made to reorganize after the plan of Harvard...