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...believe that coercion +++aosters a distaste for religious matters which in the end amounts to opposition. In consideration, whereof, we recommend that system which would remove from the student the constraint arising from the present system, and leave him freedom of choice...
...that the changes of pitch they exhibit are not contiguous but discrete: a musical composition consists of a mass of different notes, the closest together of which in pitch are still distinctly separate. In the vocal production of tone this character of discontinuity is the result of a constraint exercised upon the organs of voice; in the case of most instruments of music nothing else is possible. The hypothesis that the suggestion for an art of discontinuous pitch came from the notes of sounding bodies is a theory of the instrumental origin of the art of music...
...system of voluntary chapel prayers at Harvard University, which has replaced the immemorial compulsory services. He replied in substance: "Instead of seven or eight hundred, as formerly, there are now one hundred and fifty; but those one hundred and fifty are animated by a sincere spirit of devotion. The constraint and formality has passed away. And (whether or not, as a consequence of the change) the general religious tone of the University has been, of late, greatly elevated and improved.-Presbyterian...
...story of the Puritan popes who wanted to be president, or wanted a professorship for self or son, or wanted a certain policy pursued, a course of study introduced, or a certain theology adopted. Affairs now move with an amazing absence of friction. Personal relations are charmingly free from constraint. We can have all courses of study desired, and the thelogies are welcome...