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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - As a graduate of Harvard, it pains me to discover that there are now in college any cranks who could write such a letter as I saw in your issue of Saturday last on the subject of sensational reporters. Yet I have hopes for him, for none but a freshman would be so ignorant of Rhetoric as to write "to deliberately falsify," and none but a freshman would be guilty of such bombastic grandiloquence as obounds in this letter. He may yet learn, when he studies Rhetoric, the best writer is he who tells "a cold...
...Francke delivered a very interesting lecture before the Historical Society last evening at 52 Tnayer. His subject was "Christianity as connected with German mythology...
...large audience welcomed Prof. Royce last evening on the occasion of his third lecture on California. "Popular Government and Lynch Law in the Mines" was the subject. California, said Prof. Royce, was essentially an American community in all stages of her development. The "new comers of 1849" imbued a spirit of youthful energy into the old camps. Bayard Taylor tells of their industry, mirthfulness, hospitality and public spirit. He found that the first election resembled a "blind pool" of the present day, everyone voting on men and questions of which they know nothing. Among the laws and customs the idea...
There are few things which will not grow tiresome if brought continually to our notice. The subject of "Religious Decadence at Harvard" is no exception to this rule. The Nation, we are glad to see, has published in its current issue, a complete refutation of the article on the subject published previously. We hope that the discussion will now be allowed to rest. Considerable feeling of a rather sanguinary tinge has already been aroused. As we do not wish to incur the expense of defensive armor, we hail this new expression of confidence in the religious training of Harvard...
...nihilism, scepticism, lying and irreligion." What I do say and think is this. Compulsory prayers are a positive injury to the religious sentiment of the college. They are a mockery of religion held continually before our eyes. They create disrespect for religion and furnish the readiest and most fertile subject for the expression of that disrespect. I do not say that irreligion is any more prevalent at Harvard than elsewhere, but I do believe that compulsory prayers are responsible for some of the irreligion that does exist...