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...resignation of the Rev. Dr. Barbour, the college Pastor at Yale, seems to have caused the students of the university to discuss with considerable freedom the subject of compulsory attendance at religious services. Dr. Barbour's resignation will not take effect until next June. At that time the university authorities will select a new pastor or provide temporarily for a continuation of the work which he has done. Apparently there are some who hope that his retirement will be followed by a change of the plan upon which the university's religious exercises have been conducted...
...apparent to the university authorities from their own point of view. Their purpose is to maintain a religious interest in those who are professing Christians or who are inclined to become Christians, and to excite such an interest in those who are inclined to avoid religious influences. What effect does compulsion have upon the several classes of persons to whom it is applied? Does it not work more harm than good? So far as members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although it is said that even among these it tends to deaden rather...
...William M. Barbour D. D., pastor of Yale University, has tendered his resignation, to take effect next June. When Mr. Barbour assumed the pastorate, he limited his period of service at ten years, and offers his resignation because the limit of time will expire at the end of the present academic year...
...there is a wild ring in the concise lines which adds double force to the warrior's savage and boastful song. "A Country Frolic" is a jolly life-like sketch, almost making one see the party at the "Forge." There would have been no diminution of the general effect of the sketch, if the conclusion had not contained the almost inevitable and common reference to a marriage. "Uncle Joe" is a sweet little story on a rather threadbare theme. However, it has the merit of not containing mechanical sentimentality and stilted dialogue, which are the common characteristics of college literature...
...give us a distinct, forceful picture, not a mere jumble like the images of a kaleidoscope. Besides these prose works the number contains two poems which are not very good. Mr. Sanford's sonnet is especially rough. There are one or two beautiful lines in it, but the general effect is crude and contradictory...