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...perpetrators were severely censured by the college for the folly and childishness of their act, and it was hoped that such an affair would never be repeated. Wednesday night, however, some miscreants, for they deserve the name, disfigured one of the rooms of Thayer by branding, seemingly with a hot iron, the initials of the occupants upon the door. Such conduct as this is worthy of only a boarding school, and should be severely frowned upon by the students...
...signs of "religious decadence" at Harvard, and I have never said that I did. Nor do I think that Harvard "is a hot-bed of incipient nihilism, scepticism, lying and irreligion." What I do say and think is this. Compulsory prayers are a positive injury to the religious sentiment of the college. They are a mockery of religion held continually before our eyes. They create disrespect for religion and furnish the readiest and most fertile subject for the expression of that disrespect. I do not say that irreligion is any more prevalent at Harvard than elsewhere, but I do believe...
...custom for a non-sectarian college newspaper man to read between the lines even in "his excitement." Nor is "his anger" aroused at a statement which bears upon its face its utter falsity. Any Harvard student who is willing to subscribe to a declaration that his college is a hot-bed of incipient nihilism, scepticism, "lying," and irreligion can do so, but it should be upon his own authority, and his statement ought to carry with it only the weight of that authority. The writer of the editorial in question does "conscientiously" deny many of the "facts stated," and declares...
...master of the hunt, started after them. The course lay through Norton's Woods, across North Avenue, through the brick yards, up the Fitchburg railroad to the water works at Fresh Pond, thence to Brattle Street, opposite Elmwood. There a break was made for home at a very hot pace, Bailey, '88 led till close to the finish when he was passed by Dana of the same class who took first place, Bailey coming in second, and Lothrop, '87 third. The leaders gained three minutes on the hares who thereby lose the prizes which go to the leading hounds...
Boys' colleges and girls' boarding schools are noted as being the nurseries and hot beds of slang. Indeed, we would really think something was wanted if we did not occasionally hear a slang word or phrase in the conversation of a college student. We are, to be sure, condemned without stint by purists and over-sensative people for what they call the murdering of the English language. There are slang words which are weak, puerile, nonsensical; but there are others which express thoughts with a greater force and clearness than do any words in good repute. For example, what word...