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...with infinite regret and not a little shame that we chronicle the approaching death of the Harvard Cooperative Society, just when several of the largest colleges in the country are following what seemed the example of our success. "Harvard indifference" is no mere bugbear or vague generality, for Harvard indifference has killed our Co-operative Society. With the '82 , '83 and '84 men, it was almost a matter of principle to support the society and to buy through it what they could. They knew what Cambridge prices were before the existence of the society, and they realized that...
...matters of religion. This, too, is generally recognized. The sole reason we have compulsory attendance at prayers, at present, is apparently because it is an old custom. Public sentiment is against it; the college is a unit against it; and yet not a move is made to put this bugbear down...
...Appleton Chapel is a rather dingy and sepulchral place, contrasting poorly with Yale's cheerful and richly sculptured Battell Chapel. It is known to everybody that from time immemorial students of every college have looked upon daily perfunctory prayers as the bugbear of their lives. To stand over a young man with a policeman's club and compel him to worship, hardly conduces either to the glory of God or to the student's religious edification. Coercion at Harvard especially is something anomalous and discordant...
...held in the evening, instead of in the morning, as at present. The change seems to us a most desirable one, especially if the time assigned were immediately before or after dinner. If this were done, attendance at chapel would be no longer regarded as a bugbear; on the contrary, it would become a real pleasure...
...freshman nine it is an absolute necessity for the good of the college that the freshman games should be abolished. As matters are at present it makes no difference how many victories the University wins over Yale, this Yale freshman series always appears before us as a bugbear. The few games that have been played by the freshmen this year do not promise as much us we had hoped. There is undoubtedly excellent material in the nine, but they do not play well together. They ought to be under the control of some University player, who could give them points...