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...positions are won by square jawed men, who can neither make nor read vers de societe, but who have the tenacity of a bull-terrier and the ambition of Lucifer. They are certainly offensive in their way - unpleasantly successful and aggressive; but they carry through very definite ends, and compel even the dilletante's unwilling respect. - Boston Transcript...
President McCosh said at the beginning of his address, that he would not "compel students to attend religious services." Why then did he afterwards regret that "upward of eight hundred students at Harvard have asked that they be not required to attend prayers?" We cannot see the distinction between "compelling students to attend religious services" and their being "required to attend prayers," that Dr. McCosh seems anxious to make. Either there is some important distinction, or Princeton's president has been grossly illogical...
...Board of Overseers of Harvard College have followed the decisive example of the Corporation, and voted that it is inexpedient not to compel attendance at morning prayers. The report which was adopted was drawn up by the Rev. Dr. Peabody, who for many years officiated at the college chapel. He had, we believe, as a colleague on the special committee, the Rev. Phillips Brooks, who now occasionally performs the service asked to be made voluntary. There was a manifest impropriety in putting any clergyman on such a committee, much more two who may fairly be called interested parties. The petition...
...instructor's tardiness, but think nothing of interrupting him in the midst of his lecture. An instructor would be justified, we think, in refusing to allow men to enter the lecture room after he had begun his talk. But allowance should be made for men who have courses which compel them to come from the Zoological Museum, as is the case with many sophomores who take Natural History 2 which comes the hour directly before the Rhetoric hour...
...enables them, it is true, to pass their entrance examinations, but which falls far short of any desirable standard. This state of affairs is attributable to the fact that the preparatory schools fail to make adequate provisions for a thorough study of these branches. It is now proposed to compel the candidates for admission to obtain a suitable "fit," by demanding a laboratory examination in addition to the usual written examination. The men would, moreover, be required to hand in note-books containing full data of the experiments performed during the school course, signed by the head master of their...