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...church they may attain their end. But we are satisfied that they are making a great blunder. They are trying to win those who are out of the fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion really does not attract, but does repel, those for whose good it is exerted; if it tends to confirm in the irreligious their opposition, and to send them out into...
...held to be a sink of iniquity. At Harvard College there are to-day more than a thousand students, from all parts of America, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. Among these are naturally a certain number of young reprobates, who rather dislike their escapades to remain unknown. As a class, these students are rich, and may be said, I believe, to come of families not yet used enough to fortune to known quite what to do with it. Generally they are good company, and they are apt to belong to the fashionable societies...
Many poor struggling geniuses among us who feel that they have not done those things they ought to have done during the past term, are, about this time, revolving in their minds whether they will go home during the Christmas vacation or virtuously remain in Cambridge and grind. To all such good intentioned and hesitating students we would say, "Dont." Don't stay here, because you will not do enough work to give you one per cent. more at the mid years than you would otherwise have. Don't stay here and be uselessly miserable in thinking...
...Instead of the wishes set forth and declared in the said ninth clause, the testator directs that all of said income which shall remain after the payment of the sum of $3000 for the maintenance and support of the 10 scholarships, shall be divided into two equal parts, one of which parts shall be applied to the maintenance and support of the library of said college by the purchase of books, the preservation and repair thereof, etc., and in all other respects this half of said residue to be subject to the like restrictions and conditions set forth...
...objection first raised is absolutely nonsensical, for the rent of the lockers would more than pay for the cost of making them. The second objection is too puerile to answer. There is little hope. In spite of all we may say, the lockers will probably still remain locked up in the college treasury...