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Our morning prayers are a survival. There was a time when there was nothing arbitrary in compulsory chapel, for the man who thought at all was sure to think that it was a good and useful institution. It might have been inconvenient, it might have been disagreeable, but the judgment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Prayer Petition from the O. K. Society. | 2/20/1886 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Again the injustice of the present marking system has been shown in a conspicuous manner. Natural History 5 is by no means a "snap course." It requires at least six hours a week laboratory work, besides a knowledge of the points taken up in the lectures. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INJUSTICE OF THE MARKING SYSTEM. | 2/19/1886 | See Source »

There is a large amount of elastic tissue in the lungs, so that by virtue of their elasticity they can expel a large part of the air which they contain when inflated. A certain amount, however, always remains. As the heart is enclosed in a sort of sack called the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Health and Strength. IX. | 2/18/1886 | See Source »

The custom of the delivery of a valedictory oration and poem distinct from the commencement exercises, began in 1811. For many years, however, the day was called Valedictory Day, and it was not until 1838 that the modern Class Day properly originated. The custom previous to 1838 was for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The History of Class Day. | 2/16/1886 | See Source »

A letter from Yale, published in a New York paper, contains a very able contradiction of the general belief that college life is degenerating into a life of athletics, impiety, and social dissipation. The same paper had previously printed a disparaging account of Yale's endeavors to get a new...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/15/1886 | See Source »