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...committee of five, appointed by the Princeton faculty, has reported in favor of vigorous measures to abolish hazing. It was decided to expel all ringleaders, and to suspend and drop, for a year, all others found guilty...
...many outbursts of journalistic feeling on "Religion at Harvard" have caused a widespread opinion that sober, steady Harvard is departing from the good old ways of its founders into fields of doubt and irreverence. These misinformed conservatives will learn with pleasure that Harvard has not only not abolished compulsory prayers, but has remodeled the old method of conducting them so that now they are more impressive than ever. The new change inaugurated yesterday marks a revolution. The teachings of the Quakers have received support. Hereafter no one will be required to officiate, but each student will quietly mediate, and wait...
...some time the authorities of Yale college have been considering a change in the appointment of commencement speakers. It is intended to abolish the ancient institutions of salutatory and valedictory addresses. The first step has already been taken in the abolition of the Latin salutatory. This is again an advance in the direction of progress. An institution which has long ceased to be useful, except in these colleges which still retain the old prescribed system can hardly be necessary and should at once give way before the new order of college study. In a system which has abolished that course...
...deemed expedient, and if required only where there are no conscientious reasons for omitting the service, belongs to the same category with other requisitions made by college authority." This is the principal argument why attendance at prayers can be required. Many reasons are given why it is inexpedient to abolish the attendance. "First and least of all is the reason that the college can ill afford the loss of reputation which would ensue on its being the first of all literary institutions in New England to abandon religious observances." Again many of the real reasons why the students desire...
...expenses attending that delightful diversion, morning prayers, which the overseers have been so considerate as not to abolish, amounts to about $5000 annually...