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...Crimson has stated a truth which, we believe no man of sincerity can deny, and we thank it for speaking so plainly and boldly on this important question. "To compel men to affect a semblance of religion which has no correspondence in their hearts, is an outrage on the men concerned and on all true religion," is a statement, the truth of which, is self-evident, and the sentiment of which, we believe, is that of every undergraduate of Harvard whatever his creed. It is an "outrage," and should be called by no milder name, that these blue-laws...
...Advertiser against the revoking of degrees by the corporation of Harvard has appeared. If, says this rejoinder, the degrees are voted subject to an expressly reserved power of revocation remaining in the corporation, or even deputed by the corporation to the faculty, no authority on earth could compel the delivery up to a riotous graduate of his diploma after the reserved power of revocation had been exercised. . . . The writer assumes that the college intends to vote degrees absolutely, and then to take them away, and it is on this assumption alone that his argument rests. If such were the claim...
Resolved, That by the death of our classmate we have lost a pleasant companion, a good scholar, a friend who bore knowing, and who by his frankness, generosity, and manliness, will compel us to miss...
...group II. to X., and Greek 5 and Latin 7 now conflict. History 8, now in group VII., was formerly in group IX. This course - History 8 - now conflicts with Greek VIII., which two courses I had arranged to take in my junior year. The present arrangement will compel me to change my entire plan of study for the rest of my college course. It seems particularly unnecessary, as the same instructor has another history course (History 6) at the time History 8 is given this year. It would be very easy for him simply to interchange these two courses...
...idea of the ancient people can be obtained than from the fabulous accounts of the Spaniards. Yucatan was the centre of a civilization extending north to the Pueblos, and south to the Peruvians. The descendants of this ancient people have so strongly impressed themselves upon the Spaniards as to compel the latter people to learn the Maya language. He pointed out the two theories as to the use of the buildings whose ruins we find upon the terraces; 1st, that they were communal houses like those of the ancient Pueblos; 2d, that they were the official houses of a migratory...