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Over two hundred Freshmen turned out last evening to hear the speakers chosen to introduce 1915 to the opportunities and aims of Appleton Chapel. This very gratifying showing only goes to uphold our opinion that a great many Freshmen are misinformed as to the nature of Appleton Chapel and its ideals. As we pointed out yesterday, the preparatory school compulsory chapel does not, as a rule, cultivate a desire to continue attendance at morning prayers while in College. In order to show Freshmen the vast difference between the spirit of our service and that at most preparatory schools, just such...
...will no longer have any place". They are both striving for the same worthy end, but one seeks to accomplish it by the destruction of some positive goods, in order to prevent the possibility of indirect evils--in short, the end justifies the means--,whereas the other wishes to uphold positive good and destroy evil by a direct attack at its root, that is, individual abuse of a legitimate right. "Does the house-wife," argues the conservative, "cease to give bread to her children because some of them have at times made themselves sick by over-eating? No, she keeps...
...breaking of mental training is any the less contemptible, we fail to understand. Perhaps the weight of moral responsibility is less imminent in the latter case, but the fact that probation permanently deprives the team of services which should be rendered, as well as failure to uphold one half of the academic contract, should more than outweigh any other argument in favor of the present universal levity...
...modern high pressure of life, the pressure of life, the great percentage of physical sickness is due to nervous troubles which have their source in the mind. It is in these mental disorders, that the doctor has opportunity to exert his Christianizing influence. Like St. Paul, he must uphold his faith in spite of criticism in order to contribute the best that is in his life...
...publishing this morning the views of President Hadley on the community of interests of Yale and Harvard. President Hadley's insistence on the points of fundamental unity--the intellectual rivalry which shows itself among the graduates in varied walks of life, the influence of the traditions which both uphold--reveals the very matter which the undergraduates are most likely to overlook. The value of the Harvard lectureship which he mentions so enthusiastically makes us wish that some Yale alumnus would present a sum of money to Harvard to allow us to entertain regularly a Yale professor. Certain it is that...