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...least half a dozen a day...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAVE CANEM. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

THOU patriot of the country's brighter day...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CENTENNIAL SONNET. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

...college, where "easy paths" are occasionally sought, should indulge in this amusement. Indeed, with those afflicted with a superabundance of leisure, it is not merely an amusement, but an occupation. The morning is creditably begun by swearing at the weather, prayers, and first-hour recitations; as the day advances, lunch, gymnasium, and dinner come in for a fair share of abuse; and the evening is consistently closed with a general grumble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAULT-FINDING AT COLLEGE. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

...which religious matters are referred to in the Yale and Princeton papers would not be surprising in ignorant revivalists, it seems a little extraordinary in people who proclaim themselves to be "cultivated Christians." And the object of the revival appears to be simply belief. The revivalists of to-day, like those of the camp-meetings of twenty years ago, cry out, in substance, "Believe right, - i. e. as we do, - no matter what you do!" The true cultivated Christian tells us to do right, and leaves the minor points of our belief to our own conscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

...present Freshman class is so large that if it forms in a single ring, during the Class-Day exercises about the tree, it will interfere with the seats erected for the ladies. At the same time, if a single class were permitted to form two rings, and to occupy two fifths instead of one fourth of the attention of the assembled company, a distinction utterly inconsistent with the democratic principles of the community would be made in its favor. The Class-Day Committee, therefore, finding themselves in a dilemma of which neither horn promises to afford general satisfaction, have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/24/1876 | See Source »