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...haste to reach the state of "an ideal university," they do not hesitate to go to the other extreme, and retain the one relic of by-gone college discipline which, above all others, marks the primitive stage in the evolution of Harvard toward the desired end. Bachelors of Arts need no longer know Greek, but they are still obliged to be present at prayers 576 times, in order to obtain the coveted degree. Is the university, after all, moving forward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1885 | See Source »

...their own devotion to notice how many others were in an equally religious frame of mind. Therefore, we recommend to the overseers that in their visits-if they wish to see how much good the students get out of compulsory chapel, they neither pray, nor sing, nor read. They need not fear that their conduct will be out of place, for, we assure them, they will find plenty of others who do not make Chapel their place of worship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/6/1885 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- It is proposed to have '88 establish a precedent by founding a new and much needed Freshman institution-a Glee Club. In a college like ours, there is undoubtedly need for more than one Glee Club. Who, then, can more properly inaugurate such a movement than the first class, which has entered college under the new regime, and with which is supposed to begin a new era in freshman life? This matter, therefore, is brought to the attention of every '88 man. Every man, who sings at all, or thinks he can, whether he reads music with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 3/4/1885 | See Source »

Vassar College is in great need of an endowment fund, and there is much trouble in the board of trustees on account of the financial state of the college. It is said that the present policy of the institution will involve a debt of $24,000 on June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/4/1885 | See Source »

...course which has in it two entire classes, there is great need of a proper reservation of selected works, and for such, a sufficient number of copies that all may be accommodated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/3/1885 | See Source »