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...delightful people, I have longed for some authoritative voice to reveal to them that the world was not bounded by the Delaware and the Schuylkill. It is too much to hope that your able article, or even the awakened consciences of the Times and the Press, will effect a conversion, but they may make the question to be asked in Philadelphia, 'Is, then, salvation come to the Gentiles...
...political, social, and moral and religious aspects, the same writer continues: 'It may be said, 'Why criticise the workings of one and the same principle in these different departments, without suggesting a remedy?' It would be almost impossible to name a remedy that should have any immediate effect in the cases mentioned. It must be a long time before renewed vitality creeps into the nerves and muscles of a patient who is 'run down.' But there is one department where a change of present policy might have much direct effect upon the life of the community; and that...
...supposed, from the omission of all reference to warnings in the new faculty regulations, that this feature of the disciplinary system had been laid aside, and an editorial to that effect was published in our columns. While we still think that was the original intention of the faculty, for some reason or other they were compelled to change their plan. The text of the new warning differs from that of the old, in that it contains a hint as to the time when the recipient began his downward career, and intimates very plainly that further neglect will get an admonition...
...circulated asking for the abolition of compulsory prayers. In taking this stand we are not influenced by disrespect for the system of daily prayer, nor by dissatisfaction with the manner in which they are conducted. We simply hold that compulsion in any religious observance renders the effect nugatory, and at the same time tends to prevent that spontaneity of motive for a religious life which alone is productive of good. The discussion in regard to compulsory prayers that has been carried on in the papers of the day, as far as reason is concerned, has been of but one tenor...
Great enthusiasm over political matters exists among the students of the great English Universities, and it is interesting to see what effect the present close election in England has upon the English undergraduates. The English Universities have always been strongholds of conservatism, and although it seems strange to the democratic American that a body of educated men should so place themselves in opposition to the liberal spirit of progress, it must be remembered that a large number of students belong to the aristocratic families...