Word: churches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mildly remind the Faculty of two facts: 1st, That they once passed a law which prohibits playing of musical instruments on the campus, except during certain fixed hours; 2d, That a church organ is a musical instrument...
...Harvard is, that it seems to have had absolutely no connection either with the nation or with its immediate neighborhood. Containing within itself a government and a classified society, it had no hand in the management of the affairs of the nation; it had no connection with the Church; it concerned itself neither with commerce, with manufacturing, nor with agriculture. All that is known about it is the form of its government, the divisions of its inhabitants, some scattered facts about its customs, and the story of its destruction...
...Hall, of the Church of the Advent, Boston, will address the St. Paul's Society at their room, No. 17 Gray, on Friday evening, March 10, at 7 o'clock...
...Harvard is the best College in America"; which is agreeable, but open to the charge of vagueness. Negatively, I think, it may be taken for granted that "Harvard is not a high school." It is also plain that Harvard is not a theological school, although in prayers and compulsory church attendance we are afflicted with two relics and reminders of the time when it once was. Most earnestly do we wish that these interesting antiquities might be at once forwarded to Philadelphia, and left there...
...Yale papers have assumed a very religious tone. The Record has become almost High-Church in its views of life. It has determined to mortify the flesh, during the "Lenten season," by refraining from its habitual "pastime of gentle reproof and delicate personalities." Any one who is familiar with the columns of the Record will at once appreciate the extent of its self-denial...