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...felt and understood. It is said that this is a very easy thing to do. Well, look about and see how few are able to do it. It is a lamentable fact that if one goes to a lecture, to a convention - or even to church - he is sure to hear a speaker who violates every law of nature in trying to tell you what he thinks. The case is indeed rare when the mind of the bearer is not fastened on some mannerism of the speaker, to the exclusion of the ideas he would make known. These mannerisms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/14/1886 | See Source »

...number of first prizes. And although we won the cup, many of our valuable men are no longer in college. The team which represented Yale is about intact; while our own must be recruited, else we can scarcely hope to retain the championship in track athletics. No man is sure whether or not he will compete successfully until he has tried. Therefore, it is necessary that a large number of '90 men commence training immediately for their meeting. Added inducement is offered by the fact that freshmen are sure of liberal handicaps in the university races. There is no reason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/14/1886 | See Source »

...claimed by many that the chapel petition was started by men who were insincere in purpose, and that making chapel voluntary would be equivalent to destroying the chapel service altogether. Even men like Dr. Brooks and Dr. McKenzie hesitated a long while before taking the step which was sure to come some day. The grand service on Sunday night - when almost as large an audience as that which assembled to hear Canon Farrar, was gathered in the chapel, showed that the students were eager to receive the new plan for religious worship. The noble words of Phillips Brooks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/6/1886 | See Source »

...Yale offers such a warning example of the same corruption. How far it is well or possible for the authorities to interdict such associations and how far to check them by sumptuary regulations I cannot say. Every parent, however, can forbid his son to join them, and may be sure that he will save not only the fees but contingent expenses to an indefinite amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economy at Harvard. | 10/1/1886 | See Source »

...take this last opportunity amid the "rush of waiters and the crush of girls," to offer once more our thanks to Captain Mumford and Captain Storrow for their pains-taking work with the crew during the past year. They have gone, bearing our hopes with them; we feel sure that they will not be disappointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/25/1886 | See Source »