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...University of Chicago has shown Itself in so many instances to possess a spirit unusually broad and liberal for an institution so young, that the announcement of compulsory attendance at chapel prayers there is hardly consistent with the professed policy, of the university or in accordance with the growing sentiment among other colleges. At Yale the feeling that prayers should be voluntary is becoming stronger each year and doubtless it will not be long before she follows the example which Harvard set some half dozen years ago and have prayers voluntary to students. With us the abolishment of compulsory attendance...
...both universities, the second because of a disagreement about dates. Yale and Princeton each admitted the justice of putting the time which these rules should go into effect two years from the date of their adoption. By this precaution all chance of unfairness was done away with. The broad application, too, of the rule to all lines of athletics is also significant, in showing the sincerity with which Harvard three years ago attempted to carry out essentially the same plan which has just been put into operation by Yale...
What Phillips Brooks was everyone knows, or rather few can appreciate. And thus few can realize the influence which his broad, earnest nature has had upon...
...University of Chicago gymnasium has the longest indoor track in the country being about ten laps to a mile, seven feet broad and banked 22 inches at the ends...
...authority of the Bible is the authority of its truth as we apprehend it, and not the authority of accuracy alone. There is a broad distinction between these theories. The old theory is that the books themselves were inspired but the new theory teaches that men were inspired who led religious lives, taught Christianity and who incidentally wrote the books...