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...affords but little consolation to the Harvard student who grieves over the present system of compulsory chapel attendance in vogue at this college, to think that the students at other colleges in general are worse situated in this respect than we ourselves are. It is but a melancholy satisfaction at best to contemplate the case of the Williams student, regularly driven to two chapel services a day - morning and evening - or of those others who have to hurry, winter and summer, at 7 o'clock or earlier every morning to the cold precincts of the college chapel. Nevertheless these comparisons...
...grounds, and insinuates that all items in reference to them proceed either from want of information or from a desire to account for defeat. We sympathize deeply with Brown in her misfortune, but must say in self-defence, that we know something personally about her grounds, and do not think that there is enough of them, or that what there is of them is good for much...
...were a fact, but I question it. No man who can read, and is in the possession of his senses, could so shut himself out of the world, unless he went off and lived as a hermit beyond the boundaries of civilization. The instructor may say, and possibly even think, that he does not read the newspapers, but you could corner him on cross-examination. It is a silly boast, and especially silly when coming from a college instructor. - [Progress...
...think it would be well to read here Article XIII. of the constitution, which is in itself explanatory...
...things which have appeared in it have come from outsiders - such as Mr. G. T. Lanigan and Mr. W. L. Alden." All of which may be very effective with the scoffing Philistines of the outside world and with jealous New Yorkers as an advertisement for Life, but we must think it to be in questionable taste appearing in the columns of Life itself. By appealing to sectional jealousy and popular prejudice in endeavoring to avoid all imputation of amateurishness Life seems to show a guilty self-consciousness and extreme terror of detection...