Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...needful to discuss the uselessness of making a certain class of students go to a service, which does not accord with their honest religious views. Leaving this idea out of the question, daily public prayers might do great good to many. Under right conditions such a service may raise our standard of thinking and living. It may be made to turn our thoughts, from the almost unavoidable sordidness around us, to the higher, and finer things of life. That the so-called daily prayers at Harvard fail in this purpose, is too true. They stimulate few or none toward better...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In a recent issue of the New York World appeared a report of the meeting of the Yale alumni. The choice of a successor to Dr. Noah Porter was discussed at some length, but the principal topic of conversation was whether Yale should have an elective system similar to the one now adopted at Harvard. One of the speakers said, "I never knew a boy who went to college at the proper time, from sixteen to nineteen years of age, who knew what line of study was really best for him. Yale has recently been compared disparagingly...
...Sargent is writing the report of the Athletic Committee which is to be delivered to the faculty at their meeting to morrow afternoon. It will cover the whole of the year 1885, and will especially discuss the matter of the employment of a coach by the crew and the foot-ball question. It is expected that the faculty will then decide whether inter-collegiate foot-ball will be allowed next fall...
...unfortunate that so many seem unable to discuss Yale affairs without indulging in ungenerous allusions to Harvard. Your correspondent 'Anti-Revolutionist' errs if he supposes that criticisms upon Yale can be answered successfully by slurs upon the university at Cambridge. This question why 'the critics who have so much to say of the Yale corporation do not open their fire on the government at Harvard,' is easily answered. The critics are graduates of Yale, members of the body which elects some of its governors. They hold no such position toward Harvard, and might justly be accused of impertinence if they...
...Yale men who ask that Yale become a slavish imitator of Harvard. It is an open secret, however, that all the faculties at New Haven are not harmonious bodies, and it is well known that discontent is widespread among the alumni. This is not the place to discuss at length the causes of this want of harmony and of this discontent, but many believe that prominent among them is the lack of any central power to direct the course and guard the interests, not of this or of that department, but of the university in all its departments. What...