Word: abolitionism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While the students at Harvard are agitating for the abolition of prayers, the faculty of Yale are bragging because the young men at that institution are asking for more and earlier petitions to the throne of grace. Yale will get even with Harvard for beating it in that boat race...
"The undergraduates of Harvard College are making another appeal to the governing bodies for the abolition of compulsory attendance upon prayers. Their petition presents the argument for the change very forcibly, pointing out that voluntary attendance would necessarily betoken genuine interest in the religious exercises, while the present sense of...
4. That the abolition of compulsory attendance upon Sunday services at church and the remission of compulsory attendance upon prayers twice a week, already conceded, leave no logical ground for the retension of further compulsion of religious matters.
6. That a large majority of the undergraduates of Harvard College earnestly desire the abolition of compulsory attendance upon prayers.
At the examination in Philosophy I, held yesterday morning, no proctors were present in the room, and no questions were allowed relative to the examination paper. This step taken by Professor Palmer deserves attention. It recognizes a principle that ought to receive general recognition in all courses. A police surveillance...