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...defend such dissertation before the faculty...
...them. This disapproval is founded on the widespread feeling that religious practices should be made matters for individual taste and feeling to direct; that everyone has a right to follow his own bent in such matters. So widespread is this feeling, that it underlies the arguments of those who defend compulsory prayers as well as of those who oppose them. No one thinks of assigning as a reason for making attendance at prayers compulsory the only reason that would have had any weight with those who established these prayers in the beginning - namely, that public prayer is the only seemly...
...editorial which appeared in the CRIMSON of yesterday, Thursday, criticising the management of the lacrosse team for not keeping up practice during these weeks of open weather. Having taken an active interest in the different branches of athletics, and among them lacrosse, since entering the university, I wish to defend the course of the lacrosse management, and show that it is a perfectly reasonable...
...best editorial from '87 editors; $10 for the best literary article contributed during the year '85-'86; $5 for the best poem contributed during the year '85-'86." The first thing notable is that poetry is at a discount, doubtless because the editors who offer the prize, wish to defend themselves, knowing too well that the "wild eyed" poets need little incentive to write. Ever since the world began, man has been inclined to force his thoughts into poetry rather than write them easily in prose. The discount on poetry, there-fore, is very probably due to over-supply...
...year in which most college interest centres, the annual meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association, was held on Saturday afternoon in New York, on the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club. For months our own association has been making its preparations for this day, and its efforts to defend the great challenge cup, which it has held continuously for five years, were rewarded with success, and this intercollegiate trophy will remain at Cambridge another year...