Word: churches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...merit of the question was taken. The result was, affirmative, 34; negative, 16. Mr. Platt, '88, was the first speaker for the affirmative. He contended that religion and education should be kept free from each other. Education belongs alone to the State and does not concern the church. If the parochial school system were adopted, the influence of the Catholic clergy would be exerted in compelling men to send their children to the parochial schools instead of public ones, against their will. The Catholic church seeks to control the State, and there is no reason why a general...
...Hessletine, '88, for the affirmative, confined his remarks to the Episcopal churches. The time is rapidly approaching when there will be one universal church, but this would be destroyed if the parochial school system went into effect. One of the greatest successes in this country has been the public school...
...Williams, '88, for the negative, said that of all prejudices, the religious ones are the bitterest, most vindictive and tenacious. He repudiated the attacks made by the affirmative on the baneful influence of the Catholic church and clergy, the assertion that Catholic parochial schools would be disloyal, utterly false. Moral training without religious teaching has very little effect...
FENCING.- F. W. Lister, formerly superintendent Harvard University Gymnasium, will teach during the ensuing season at Dr. Sargent's gymnasium, corner Church and Palmer streets. For terms, dates, etc., address 26 No. Harvard street, Allston, foot of Boylston street, Cambridge...
...Ready, Church's Middle Ages; Ransome's History of England; Milman's Latin Christianity; Translation of Heyse's "In Paradise...