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...last issue of the Nation contains a new attempt to picture the terrible state of religious feeling at Harvard. Again we hear the antiquated wail that our "study of geology and of the doctrines of evolution" have slowly disintegrated our belief in the "old Bible stories of creation." We are represented as believing that "all religion is a sham, well enough for our ancestors and for old women, but, in the light of modern science, a mere delusion." The pen of the enlightened writer does not pause before that tabooed subject, "compulsory prayers." How pleasing and how refreshing...
...rumored that Mr. Baker will make another attempt to break the half mile record during the next two weeks, if the weather is propitious...
...several, as by this means far the best results can be obtained. Several of the excluded topics are such as any student can answer without a moments trouble, and therefore their exclusion will not hamper the exercise of his argumentative faculties. Such a question as, "Ought a University to attempt the moral guidance of its students?" is obviously too easy for consideration, while the question "Is Charity harmful?" is promptly and decidedly answered by those men who have contributed various sums towards getting a worthy engineer's "valuable surveying instruments" out of pawn. Lines of argument in the discussion...
...which the least general interest is taken. The autumn is the height of the polo season, and if anyone should feel interest enough to go out to the grounds and see the game, he would become fascinated with the sport, and be eager to make an attempt at play...
...writer of your editorial appears to know little of the state of athletics at Harvard and should not have attempted to fill space in the paper by speaking of a subject about which he is so poorly informed. He says: "Now that foot-ball has been, at least for a time, laid by," etc., and then complains because the lacrosse men do not step in and fill up this gap in the circle of sports. The fact is that foot-ball has not been laid aside even for a time, as the gentleman would easily see if he took...