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...annual dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi Society takes place in Boston tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/5/1883 | See Source »

...energy expended brings no compensating advantage, and decreeing that the college shall cease to take part in them, whenever the present engagements have been fulfilled, or after the close of the present collegiate year." The resolutions also express their cordial approval of games and athletic contests which take place on the students' home grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/5/1883 | See Source »

Probably the one place in college that impresses the visitor with the fact that the student does study and think and read is the library. And the department of the library of which this is especially true is the "Notes and Queries" system. There the particular study or theme in which each student is most interested is reflected in the questions written on the card. Rarely one of these questions is found that betrays any considerable ignorance in common things, but the following perhaps is an example of this class. One man wants to know "when and where originated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/5/1883 | See Source »

...Nation on religious discipline at Harvard. In concluding it proposes an astonishing solution of the question, viz : "A leading churchman of this city favors the division of Harvard University into separate colleges, each religious denomination to have control of its own. He believes that this will some time take place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/5/1883 | See Source »

...Philadelphia alumnus, to the communication on religion at Harvard, which appeared in a recent number. The writer denies the 'existence of "forced religious training" at Harvard, because, although after the student comes to Cambridge, he is obliged to attend religious exercises, yet he is not obliged, in the first place, to come there. Secondly, he holds that Harvard's position is not "illogical and absurd," because in other affairs besides college exercises men are trusted on their honor, although it is known that all men cannot invariably be relied upon. The present church and chapel regulations may, he concludes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/5/1883 | See Source »