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...together with several men prominent in the weekly hunts, adopted the rules published in the CRIMSON of October 26th. It will be noticed that there is nothing in these rules radically different from those previously understood, except that the hares are liable to forfeit their right to cups if they win by laying a scent unsatisfactorily to three-quarters of the hounds. Whether it is because of this rule or not, the hares have since laid much better scent. In fact the scent was so good that one man complained that he never had a chance to rest. The experiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hare and Hounds. | 12/13/1886 | See Source »

...prosperity - and she has had a large dose of both - Columbia has always held up her head with the proudest. Contending as she has done, against the many disadvantages which are sure to attend a college situated in the heart of a great city, she has honorably proved her right to existence; she has gradually been shaking off the bonds which held her and has been approaching nearer and nearer to the level of a university. She has worked faithfully and uncomplainingly and she deserves her reward; and there is to-day no institution in America which will wish more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/9/1886 | See Source »

...life. If ever in following his own desires he has done a just, a kindly act, he can find in that, evidence of God; for justice and charity are divine attributes. In society, politics, science, poetry, we see the same truth made manifest, - if the heart be not right, if the life be not pure, each in the end will cast us out. When the world be so purified we shall have reached the perfect state. "I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first earth hath passed away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Smyth's Address. | 12/6/1886 | See Source »

...part of orthodox parents and friends of young men who are studying in the Institute of Technology in this city, that some of the instructors go out of their way to say things intended - and having the effect - to weaken the hold of Christianity upon their minds. What right have these teachers, if unbelievers themselves, to use the opportunity of their station and their influence over the young minds under their care to undermine Christian faith? It is the most objectionable form of sectarianism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science vs. Religion. | 12/6/1886 | See Source »

...will be simplified and the trouble abated. It is this thoughtlessness, and only thoughtlessness, without question, which causes all the trouble. A little more thought and a little less selfishness will result in far more satisfactory results to all. But because this subject is hackneyed no man has a right in common justice to neglect the matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/4/1886 | See Source »