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...judging the action of the Athletic Committee, let us keep constantly in mind the great truth that "consistency is a vice of small minds." I confess that this seems to me to be the only way to get over the difficulty of trying to reconcile the present action of the Committee with their action towards col. Bancroft last year...
Since we believe in free speech, we publish this morning a communication from a freshman on the subject of compulsory chapel-going, although, we confess, it would be a kindness to the writer to suppress it. When the writer grows older, he will be far better able to judge of the effects of our present system that he is now, and he will then be prepared to express an intelligent opinion concerning it. He is mistaken in supposing that it is only the men who "indulge in expensive sprees, and go to bed regularly...
...this very cause much of that infidelity for which Harvard has become notorious. The impression is current in the outside world that it is equivalent to sacrificing a man's religious belief to send him to Cambridge; and it is with a bitter sense of humiliation that we confess this impression to be partially founded on fact. Not that there is any great amount of open infidelity here; not that a large proportion of men lose their faith. But that a freethinking tendency exists here, stronger than in any other college, is painfully evident. There is no time...
...visible impression on the mind, and after a year or two will fade completely away, never to be recalled. Yet where are we to get instructiors of the type recommended by Professor Tyndall? This is indeed a gordian knot in the shape of a question, and we must confess has not been cut with an answer. Much can be done by a hard working and earnest teacher to keep up the flagging interest of his class, but from the general indifference it is quite evident that there is a lack of system in the art of teaching, and until that...
...thus frankly because the situation seems to demand it, for the only actions taken by the Committee last year. were unfortunate in every way. If the present Committee, with its popularity among the students, and its personal interest in the welfare of the college cannot solve this problem, we confess that we are in despair of any further faculty regulation...