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...Princetonian says of the position Harvard has been taking in regard to foot-ball, that "the Harvard faculty might better have allowed the Harvard undergraduates to stand by the ship, and have done Harvard's share in raising the standard of the sport, rather than to temporarily desert and leave Yale and Princeton to overcome the difficulties present and prepare everything for Harvard's safe return...
...politician and writer, has purchased a large interest in the Advertiser, and will hence-forth, presumedly, have much to do in shaping its policy. We can but congratulate Professor Dunbar as he retires, and the college at large, for the credit reflected directly and indirectly by the high journalistic stand to which this paper has been brought. The energy for which Mr. Lodge is famous, governed by the cautious temper which he must inherit from the former management, promise a vigorous future for this paper...
...prominent financier or able business man would do much to gratify a widespread interest in college. Active legislators are prone to sneer at college theorists and their ideas. Why not invite a representative of this school of the world to attempt to correct these ideas. Two lectures from different stand points on this very silver question would shake the two schools together, and might increase the respect of one for the other...
...very glad to have the Advocate define her position in regard to the Conference Committee, and we stand shoulder to shoulder with her in the views expressed in the last issue. If our former criticism was unjust, it was due to the interpretation we placed on the editorial in the sixth number, and our zeal to see the Conference Committee meet with fair play in the college press...
...give our hearty support to the petition which is to be circulated asking for the abolition of compulsory prayers. In taking this stand we are not influenced by disrespect for the system of daily prayer, nor by dissatisfaction with the manner in which they are conducted. We simply hold that compulsion in any religious observance renders the effect nugatory, and at the same time tends to prevent that spontaneity of motive for a religious life which alone is productive of good. The discussion in regard to compulsory prayers that has been carried on in the papers...