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...special Chapel service for Freshmen held last evening, the advantages and the meaning of morning service in Appleton were made clear by President Lowell, Professor Palmer, and Dr. Fitch, each emphasizing what to him is most significant in a College man's religion. President Lowell put the stress on the infinity of purpose, influence are responsibility, and what these things should mean to the man who seeking the firmest foundation. Just as the captain of a vessel is responsible for the lives of others and is distrusted if he admits incompetency, so are all men responsible for the lives...
...brief reading, preferably from a dramatic work, that shall give the judges an idea of a man's voice, bearing, and general stage presence. Parts in the play are open to all undergraduates and it is urged that members of the Freshman and Sophomore classes enter the competition. No stress will be laid upon the fact that a man has already acted with the club or is a member, but the trials are open equally to all undergraduates...
...This was a fatal moment in the history of Israel, the nation which was bound to influence more deeply than any other the religious opinion of modern Europe, which was in sore stress, and, in fact, in danger of extinction...
...come to the question of what advice they should give. Of course, the usual procedure of making the Freshman feel at home and explaining some of the ins and outs of College should be carried through, but there is one matter of vital and increasing importance on which more stress ought to be laid. We mean scholarship...
...change means that Harvard has now two plans of admission, both of which, by lessening the necessity of special preparation to pass Harvard examinations and by laying greater stress on the pupil's everyday school record, tend to open the University to larger numbers of students...