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...course, - a course which from its usefulness has become very popular. We have been waiting patiently till we should become seniors, in order that we might have the manifest advantage of just such instruction, and now our hopes are blasted. Let the faculty consider the case fairly, and I think they must see how unjust is their action. Or if it is quite impossible to have English VI, let us, at least, have some parallel course. What Harvard men need, perhaps, more than any other thing, is practice in public speaking. Hitherto this has been our only means of preparation...
...That the student members of the Conference Committee be requested to make such provision as they may think best for the maintenance of order in the yard and to associate with them for that purpose such students as they may choose...
...question. There is no doubt but compulsory chapel and compulsory church caused a stagnation in religious matters at Harvard, that only the breaking of the fetters which bound us to the latter has disturbed. Dr. Hale declares our chapel service to be "the grandest he has ever seen." We think he is mistaken; it lacks the one thing which makes a religious service most impressive - spontaneity. But hereafter, with a sympathetic pastor in our midst to stimulate us to new ambitions, with a chapel where interest and not compulsion is the motive of attendance, where each worshipper feels that...
...been voted by the faculty that the student members of the Conference Committee be requested to make such provision as they may think best for the maintenance of order in the college yard, and to associate with them for that purpose such students as they may choose...
...which consists to a great extent in living in the midst of companions of one's own age and tastes, is denied in a great measure to these same men. Of course, as long as Harvard is too poor to build another dormitory, some one must suffer, but we think it only just to give upper classmen the preference over sub-freshmen, by limiting the number of rooms for which sub-freshmen may apply...