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Putting aside such minor considerations as the personal annoyance caused the students, and the danger of attending services held in a cold chapel, we deny the moral right of the authorities of a college to whip men into chapel when they are unwilling to attend. Men do not come to college to learn how to pray: as a rule, we think, they are quite capable of attending to their private devotions without any assistance. Students who are old enough for voluntary recitations are fully capable of responsibility on matters of religion. This, too, is generally recognized. The sole reason...
...much further than merely to deny the moral right of forcing men into chapel. We ascribe to this very cause much of that infidelity for which Harvard has become notorious. The impression is current in the outside world that it is equivalent to sacrificing a man's religious belief to send him to Cambridge; and it is with a bitter sense of humiliation that we confess this impression to be partially founded on fact. Not that there is any great amount of open infidelity here; not that a large proportion of men lose their faith. But that a freethinking tendency...
...voluntary, and at once desired. If the position taken were only foolish, we should not mind so much, -we are used to it; -but when there is a contradiction between theory and practice from every point of view, then objection mist be raised. Of all things, we have a right to demand that, if the motto of the college, Christo et Ecclesiae, mean anything, it should not come to be the common scoff and fun if has been made. It can be only a mockery when it looks down from the stained-glass windows of the chapel...
...college games, is worthy of the most careful consideration and discussion. The committee must have weighty reasons indeed to induce them to take such a step-a step a so contrary to the spirit of independence and intelligence in which we pass our college lives-and we think it right that these reasons should be made known before any hasty criticism of their action is attempted. We feel confident, however, that the students as a body will regret to find the faculty interposing in their sports and saying that such and such games shall be played, and such and such...
...glad to see that the college authorities have taken a step in the right direction in regard to lighting the entries of the college buildings during the evening. From time to time, the college papers have shown the advisability of having the gas left burning all night in the entries of the dormitories, but until the present time their complaints, and we think them just, have been disregarded. Now, however, the authorities have acceded partially to our request, and the lights are not turned off until after midnight. Although we have not gained all we hoped...