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...embarrassing questions. In short, Harvard College may be turned into a reform school for inculcating civility and decency of manner. This, of course, will never be done and if the students persist in this course of dishonor probably the faculty will make no regulation to stop it. Yet what sort of business is this for college men? How much strength of character, how much manliness, does such action show? None. Is it up to the standard of American college life? Certainly not. The students themselves, those who have any appreciation of the dignity of Harvard life should unite to frown...
There are tendencies at work in these busy days of political and mercantile interests which are gradually divorcing the religiously inclined from organizations of any sort. The reason in part for this estrangement is that the church has changed in its relation to religion...
...souls, because ye were dear unto us." This Paul wrote in his first letter to the Thessalonians, the people that he loved better than any others. He meant that he wanted to give the Thessalonians everything that was in his power, even to his own life. This is the sort of men needed today, men who can forget their own welfare and dedicate themselves to the service of others. The words of Christ, "We are members of one another," are better understood now than they were fifty years ago. The only way that a man can do any good...
...first place, this is absolutely no time for considering the length of a man's service of the nine, (except as that may have shown his fitness) or his class, or his society connections or anything of the sort; fitness and individual character and the ability to see clearly the conditions and to adapt himself to them, these and these only should have any weight. And fitness in this case means a clear head, a steady purpose and the quality of natural leadership. It does not imply the greatest actual ability as a baseball player any more than generalship...
...that a start has been made, new rules of the same sort are sure to be generally adopted. They are, moreover, but the heralds of still more restrictions, that will take place on the lines of particlar sports. In football the reform has begun. It will surely take place in other athletic sports, with the final result that all athletics will be restricted. This seems to be the opinion everywhere among students and faculties...