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...duty of an anniversary to test and recognize the relation in which a man or a venerable college stands to this element of the Christhood, to the goodness of God and the greatness of man as making together the atmosphere of life. Think, then, about the history of our college as we hurriedly traced it. Is its true explanation here? Has all this constant enlargement of its life been moving toward the great truths of the goodness of God and the sublime capacity of man. It must be so. Our progress of these two centuries and a half would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunday Evening Services. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...this lack of interest in the sport unless it be in the fact that Jarvis Field is used more by the 'varsity and freshman teams than it was a year ago by the various class elevens. Still, Jarvis is free to any college elevens which may desire to test their muscle and staying powers from two o'clock until three in the afternoon, and during the entire morning. We understand that one or two games between Memorial Hall tables have been arranged, but why not make this practice universal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/20/1886 | See Source »

...make the students thoroughly understand that the committee is nothing more than a debating society where undergraduate opinion may be expressed without reason or responsibility, for if one's schemes are to have no effect, the wildest kind of phantasies will be indulged in by conservative members even. The test of practical application would make theorists a little more relieving in bringing forth their petted doctrines, but if then proposed and adopted, the college could locate the responsibility. Let it not be thought that we intend to disparage the sincerity or the labor of last year's Conference Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/11/1886 | See Source »

...feeling of relief is felt throughout the college, now that the crucial test of the Princeton game is past. The nine henceforth goes on to victory, with the belief and trust of the whole body of undergraduates to strengthen and encourage them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/1/1886 | See Source »

Here are eight years spent in instructing a branch which we are ready to throw aside after two or three years. Might not our University try to remedy this evil by applying some severe test in this branch of study at the admission examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geography. | 3/19/1886 | See Source »

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