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Candid confession of the Yale News. "By permitting the Harvard freshmen to take their fence from them the freshmen have proved themselves the weakest class, in one respect at any rate, that has ever entered Yale College."
The following bit of ingenuous confession on the part of a Yale man will cause a few stray smiles: "The work of blasting the rocks from the side of the hills of the Yale field progresses rapidly and we have hopes of having a level field in order to play...
A peculiar feature of the morning prayers was the public confession from delinquent students which the President was accustomed to hear directly after the service. Discipline was then administered according to the nature of the offence. It consisted of degradation, admonition, or expulsion. Corporal punishment was given up as a...
And with this confession the prayer takes the form of intercession: "O Lord, send us friends. Thou has made many of our people rich. Now, O Lord, make them liberal. Teach them to speak to us through the A. H. M. S., O Lord!"
Appeals for money to found new schools and colleges, or to support those already established, are common occurrences in America. As a usual thing, such requests excite but little comment, but the following, which we take from a recent number of Harpers' certainly ought to command attention by its exceedingly...