Word: christian
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There was once a "Hell-Fire Club," but we who call ourselves enlightened have here only the St. Paul's Society, the Society of Christian Brethren, and the Y X. The first and foremost need in Cambridge is some association representing the other side of this morality question. We incline altogether too much in one direction; we are becoming too staid, too learned. Some society which can be called "The Harvard Society for the Propagation of Vice," or "The Harvard Society for the Suppression of Virtue in Undergraduates," ought to be established before we become too wedded...
...cultivation of any imaginable taste. The athlete has admirable facilities for developing ad infinitum his rowing, batting, or kicking powers; the linguist can revel in the Cercle Francais and the Der Verein; the Natural History Society promotes the interest of science; while the S. Paul's and the Christian Brethren offer spiritual comfort to gentlemen of a serious turn. Social, literary, and artistic organizations are not wanting; but there is a lack, - for there is no body of any sort at Harvard which takes an active interest in politics, or in the current history...
...flogged; still more wonderful would it appear to our parents if a long list of fines should accompany our term bills! Yet the College records tell us that these punishments were once looked upon in the same light as "privates" and "publics" are now. A century ago such a Christian spirit was manifested by the students that the authorities saw fit to impose a fine of 6d. upon those that came to "meeting before bell-ringing," and the luckless undergraduate who neglected to repeat the sermon was reminded of his inattention by a fine of 9d. A social game...
...considered as the proper thing, adding a certain amount of dignity and distinction to the day, and not as the expression of the sincere religious feeling of any portion of the class. This is of course addressed to those who believe in the first article of the Christian creed; but since the publication of certain rather remarkable views among us, it is necessary to consider those who do not accept this fundamental assertion; but these can certainly not think it honorable to feign a belief in such superstition by electing a man to pray for them. Very different opinions from...
Resolved, That in the death of our classmate we mourn the loss of a faithful friend and a true Christian, who, by a life short but faithful in good works, has made his memory dear to the many, in administering to whose needs that life was spent...