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...connection with their meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the result of the discussion which took place then has leaked out. After a protracted debate on the subject of voluntary prayers, the board decided by their vote to put themselves on record as favorable to the plea made in the recent petition presented by the students. This is another step in the right direction, if the wishes of the majority of students are to be consulted. The overseers and corporation are the persons who have the power to say whether such things as voluntary prayers shall or shall...
...recent thaw has formed several natural rinks in the yard...
...language of the Quin-quennial Catalogue instead of the semi-barbarous Latin which has been used heretofore. For a year, we inferred, the overseers had been screwing their courage to the sticking point, and it has at last stuck. But now. alas, comes the surprising intelligence that their recent resolution has been changed, the catalogue is to be printed in the language which for many years has puzzled our forefathers, whenever they have tried to recognize their own names. The overseers, startled at their own boldness, have lost heart; their courage has stuck, it is true, but only...
Elihu, the patron saint of the Yale Lit., philosophically looks out upon the foot-ball field, and thus discourses: "The recent foot-ball upheaval at Harvard has not passed by without shaking Elihu, though himself nothing of an athlete. As an outsider then, he has such a feeling of diffidence on the subject as to prevent him from making anything like a dogmatic statement can only suggest. But it seems to him that it would have been a bright idea for the Harvard Athletic Committee-body of august power and marvelous foresight-to have delayed their decree until the inter...
...recent contribution to the rapidly increasing number of works on political history and science is the volume under the above title. from the pen of Woodrow Wilson, Fellow of Johns Hopkins. The work is a clearly written exposition of the method by which our governmental machinery is run. The majority of American voters have but a crude conception of the labors which lie before each incoming congress, and a still more indefinite idea of the way in which these labors are performed. It is with interest, and often with surprise, that one reads the description of the extraordinary powers conferred...