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...copy this morning from the Nation of last week a most interesting and instructive comparison of the progress made by Harvard and Yale respectively during the last fifteen years. The moral conveyed by this article is obvious...
...shows an increase of thirty pages over that for 1883-84. President Eliot's report is devoted almost entirely to an elaborate study of the working of the elective system. Of the system itself the report says: "It is emphatically a method in education, which has a moral as well as an intellectual end, and is consistent with a just authority while it grants a just liberty." The twenty-one pages, on which is a complete record of every member of the classes of '84 and '85 for the sophomore, junior, and senior years, this record comprising the courses elected...
...would we say that we never personally gained any good whatever from the service. But what we do mean to say is that we recall no time when the service specially aroused religious impulses. Upper most in our recollection the college prayers stand, not for their religious or moral significance, but as a roll-call." - Cornell...
...batteries of compulsory religion forty-three times. Forty-three times had the boy-choir opened on him with the theme of retribution. Forty-three times had the preacher taught him that the way of the transgressor is hard. Praise, prayer, benediction, - 43 combined failures to accomplish a moral reformation. But the Sunday Herald softened his hard heart...
...this raises hopes which no man can innocently enjoy. But this weather is so "sloppy" that perhaps even Lampy can be forgiven if he will cease to attempt henceforth to illumine his columns with that talismanic word, the CRIMSON. Of course the Lampoon cannot appreciate the blessings of Harvard morality and religion. But a too candid acknowledgement of a want of moral stamina and cerebral perception is often laboriously tiresome. We trust that our religious editorials will now do a great work. We have every reason to hope this, for at least even Lampy has been led to moralize, weakly...