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...that the fact that such resolutions have been passed by a representative student body will call general attention to the subject, and rouse discussion upon it. For it is only by discussion and agitation that the students can be brought to see the true nature of the evil, and establish a public opinion which will condemn...
There is but one worthy reason why prayers as at present conducted should be opposed; they are not prayers. There is but one thing essential to their being defensible; that they become prayers. If the men who established them had been told - "These prayers will be a mere roll-call, a practice kept up for fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained...
...University of Penn. A. A. have a scheme on foot to establish a State Inter-collegiate Spring Athletic Meeting. Johns Hopkins and the Naval Academy at Annapolis may be invited to join...
...bright reply from Judge Wilbur F. Stone, to the effect that most of the statesmen and men of affairs had come from interior colleges. Other speeches taking up the general line of thought that men equipped with a college education could wield great influence in the new West and establish here an ideal empire which combined all the best of the older States, were made by the various speakers who followed...
Certain gentlemen offered to endow at Yale a chair of lectures on Protection. The Philosophical faculty, before whom the matter properly came, referred the matter in proper order to the Presidential Committee of the corporation, which body accepted the endowment and authorized the Philosophical Faculty to establish the course of lectures, which they have done, much to the satisfaction of the whole university, which is never more anxious to hear both sides than are the faculty to give the opportunity...