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...Briggs, T. P. Burgess, J. M. Cameron, C. Carroll, G. Dexter, F. C. De Veau, W. Endicott, R. F. Fiske, C. A. de Gersdorff, D. P. Griswold, M. Hecksher, W. C. Herron, H. W. Keyes, G. S. Mumford, F. Remington, J. S. Russell, J. L. Snelling, A. W. Wheel right, J. S. Whistler. F. S. Churchill, '86 was elected an honorary member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/27/1886 | See Source »

...essential to a good reputation. Can the cribber respect himself, and can be expect, that on sober thought, his friends and the college public in general will respect him? Excuse cribbing as much as you can, and the fact that an excuse is needed, shows that all is not right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/27/1886 | See Source »

...have in ordinary opposition to prayers, it would be a mistake to suppose that there is not a genuine, conscientious disapproval of them. This disapproval is founded on the widespread feeling that religious practices should be made matters for individual taste and feeling to direct; that everyone has a right to follow his own bent in such matters. So widespread is this feeling, that it underlies the arguments of those who defend compulsory prayers as well as of those who oppose them. No one thinks of assigning as a reason for making attendance at prayers compulsory the only reason that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Prayer Petition from the O. K. Society. | 2/20/1886 | See Source »

...give us the highest ideals of living, is to teach us to see what is right, and to stick to it unflinchingly, she must care more for the right than for money and popularity. It would be better for her to make men out of a few, than to give a parchment degree to thousands. Moreover, we must hear less of expediency and inexpediency. We must not be told that Harvard is afraid to take the stand for perfect religious freedom, because she fears unpopularity among certain classes. A church and a university can always afford to strive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/16/1886 | See Source »

...larger part of these petitions are, of course, for prayer cuts, the rest bearing on our system of voluntary attendance at recitations - voluntary if we feel like going. Whether or not it is right to offer these guileful petitions for our prayer cuts, and, as it were, to fight the devil with fire, we are not prepared to say. It is a social problem upon the solution of which we shall not enter until the marks are out in Ethics nineteen: but truly is not the cause and effect as plainly seen as in the Nihilism of Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1886 | See Source »