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...adopted and have upheld this compulsory system in religion undoubtedly believe that it works for the good of the student-that it tends to keep the religious from backsliding and to draw the frivolous and irreligious to a sober consideration of religious truths and principles. But is this a correct view of the results of compulsion? There are in every college class students who would attend chapel and church if the rules did not require them to do so. They are active in prayer meetings and other religious work that is optional, so to speak. Compulsion is to them...
...favor of such changes, and that there is a very strong chance that such changes can be carried through the Intercollegiate foot ball convention. These opinions, as will be seen, are directly opposed to the assertion of the Committee. Who, I ask, is more likely to form a correct opinion of the "prevailing spirit" of the students and of the chances of carrying certain changes through the Intercollegiate convention, -the Athletic Committee, or the students themselves...
...print to day the first correct report of the Athletic Committee which has appeared. The report which was published yesterday in the Advertiser was marred by some important omissions...
...faculty, we must show cause why they should not take any particular action, and try to bring them to our way of thinking. So, while the right of interference cannot be denied, we think that the committee ought to allow the students at least a fair chance to correct the evils, which they must point out, before they decide to make such a recommendation to the faculty as they propose to. Let them allow the foot ball men to attempt a change, before the game is forbidden...
...college should go down in a body to New Haven and encourage our men to make another fight, just as they did in the Princeton game. Although the weather has been very unfavorable for foot ball the last few days, the eleven has profited by Saturday's game to correct many of its faults, and a good game will, we hope, be the result. Every man who can possibly go, seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshmen, alike, should feel it their duty as a Harvard men, interested in Harvard's athletics, to support the eleven in this, their last game...