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...leader seems to have been for some time an unknown quantity, as the secretary speaks seriously of introducing a metronome that they might keep better time! The musical talent in college seems to have been very limited, and the Pierian often had difficulty to maintain its existence. Thus we read in the Reminsicences of an Ex-Pierian that it was "reduced to a single active member, as was the case when Mr. G. held the meeting regularly alone, not forgetting, it is said, to put up the advertising board for his own sole notification each week, calling himself to order...
...School of Veterinary Medicine is still without endowment. Its tuition fees and the receipts of the hospital and forge, which it is obliged to maintain in order to teach effectively, come near to supporting it with a low scale of salaries and an insufficient number of officers. Like the dental school, the veterinary department is really dependent on the gratutous assistance from the medical school...
...temples were restored, and often entirely rebuilt by the later kings. It was customary to restore the decaying buildings of earlier times and we learn from numerous inscriptions that the kings wished all sorts of imprecations on the heads of those of their successors who should not maintain the temples and palaces they built. For knowledge of this earlier period we must depend on inscriptions. The later period which extends down from the 8th century before Christ to the fall of the Assyrian Empire, we can study more closely, as actual ruins remain...
There are sound objections to "compulsory worship" in universities, which should be 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...
...those for whose good it is exerted; if it tends to confirm in the irreligious their opposition, and to send them out into the world with - in many cases - a deep-seated aversion for such religious services as they have been forced to attend, is it not folly to maintain such a system, folly from the point of view of the college authorities themselves...