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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMOSN :-I wish, through your columns, to call the attention of the students, and especially of the freshmen class, to the Society of Christian Brethren. This society was founded 81 years ago, to promote the religious welfare of the college. It was part of a movement against the influence of French sceptical philosophy which was very popular in the United States at the beginning of the century...
...conditions are exaggerated. We all know that there is among Harvard students a large class of earnest Christian men, accustomed to religious work at home and finding some especial religious work at college necessary to make their life at Harvard complete. For such men the Society of Christian Brethren was founded, and to such men I wish to appeal in behalf of the society. All the members of the university are cordially invited to attend our meetings...
...numerous ones of the West the same thing has been repeated over and over again. Given, a marriageable professor in the faculty and one, or several, or many pretty and charming "co-eds"-as the young women in those institutions are termed in the college slang of their student-brethren-and no matter how much they are on learning bent, nor how many "missions" their zealous souls have decided to take up, there is sure to be a wedding. It is a fate as inevitable as to-morrow, and the marriageable professor-to say nothing of the "co-ed"-cannot...
...world; and if they work faithfully at school to fit themselves to fill it, it is unjust and cruel to turn them out into it at the beginning of their career with a sense of defeat because Nature did not endow them as highly as a few of their brethren. The Tribune has called the attention of colleges and teachers to this increasing and fatal error. It only echoes the opinion of parents everywhere. They see, if teachers do not, that the real object of education in American colleges should be not to elevate the reputation of this or that...
Monday, 3 P. M. - Christian Brethren...