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...that this question has not been agitated before. But it is never too late to begin any agitation if good may result. The plea is not wholly utilitarian. There is no doubt but that an increased attendance would increase the significance and interest of the services while it would render the work of the preacher in charge doubly renumerative and fourfold more pleasant. It is not a question of material change of habit. Many of the law students could just as well (so far as their duties are concerned), attend chapel as the students of the college. They ought...
...speak is universal. There is no life which fulfils itself entirely and worthily, except as it is inclosed within the grasp of a life larger than its own. Such enclosure may be represented, as an obedience, to which the life is bound, a service which it is compelled to render, or more truly as the existence within an element which is its natural supply and good. Just think how numerous the institutions are. Each man must feel about him the grasp of the total humanity to which he belongs. If he does not, he becomes inhuman. Each truth must...
...instead of simply marching through provincial Cambridge? We need only say in the first place that the procession was not originated as a form of amusement for the inhabitants of any particular section, and in the second place that to transfer the scene of the celebration to Boston would render the whole occasion ridiculous. Here the college was founded, here should its foundation be celebrated. Any idea which regards the celebration as simply a means of amusement is unworthy of the occasion...
...hasten to render a tardy acknowledgement of the debt of gratitude we owe those who worked so hard and trained so faithfully during the long months of winter, and in whom we felt so much pride in the spring. And let us express our appreciation of their efforts in some more palpable form than mere words...
There was some criticism of the work of the Union last year which, without doubt, may serve as a guide to avoid such criticism in the future, if it is just, and to render it palpalbly unjust if it is so. There is often, it is true, too much school-boy oratory displayed when those who are ambitious for forensic honors first address the Union. But this is inevitable, and should be judged leniently. The work of the society merits the support of every student, while it seldom calls for his criticism...