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Russia is said to be the only civilized nation whose laws exclude women from a college course. And yet Dean Burger says that God has forsaken Oxford since women have been admitted to examination in that institution...
...against it," and that chapel going was responsible for much of the infidelity for which Harvard has become notorious. How the writer arrived at the latter conclusion from the arguments he used is a conundrum. He says the Harvard authorities have decided that it is only necessary to worship God four times a week, while formerly seven times was the required number, and then wants to know if there is an evolution towards no prayers, and if two prayers a week will not in years to come, be enough. All that seems like child's talk. The authorities allow...
...seem only right that as much regard should be paid to his religious belief as is possible. As a matter of fact, the only regard paid to it is to weaken it. A man enters chapel, and a monitor marks on a slip of paper that he has worshipped God according to the rules and regulation of Harvard college. It is not necessary that he should pray every day. By some unknown power the authorities have come to the decision that it is only necessary to worship God four times a week. In case a man fails to attend...
...soon as the pilgrims had roofs to shelter them and food to keep them alive, they turned their attention toward matters of education, and a bill was passed in 1636 by the General Court of Massachusetts to found a college. It was at this time, that it pleased God to stir up the heart of one John Harvard to leave the half of his fortune, (L1, 700) and his library for the purpose of founding a college. Others gave modest sums and finally the State supplied what little money was needed in addition. The college was to be at Cambridge...
...After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the city government; one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of Mr. John Harvard (minister of Charlestown), a godly...