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SOME books have disappeared from the Yale Library, and the Library Committee have published a card in the Courant, threatening to make public the name of any person who shall be found guilty of taking a book from the Library. In reference to the new Chapel at New Haven, the Courant prints the following pithy editorial...
...Crimson has once or twice referred to this movement in a somewhat light manner, and the last number of the Courant, which reaches us as we are going to press, rebukes us for a levity which would be objectionable on the score of taste alone, and for which we hasten to express our sincere regret. A college paper, as the Courant justly says, is not the proper place for a religious discussion. But we cannot resist the temptation to say a few words on this matter, especially as it has occupied so much space in our recent exchanges. Religious feeling...
...Yale Courant complains that the Faculty have sent notes of warning - resembling our "publics" - to the parents of every Senior who has failed to obtain on his first half-year's work 2.50, which appears to be about half the maximum mark. The Courant thinks the Faculty very inconsiderate of the feelings of the families of the unfortunate students; and it quotes from sundry parental letters recently received by Yale men, to the effect: "Don't disgrace us all"; "Is this the return for the money I have laid out on your education...
...tone of the Courant, too, is far more pacific than usual. A correspondent of this paper is much shocked because the "President's Sunday-evening prayer-meetings" are poorly attended. It seems that Dr. Porter recently invited some "prominent gentlemen" to address an audience of "cultivated young Christian gentlemen." When the time came, only thirty-six cultivated young Christian gentlemen appeared, and to cap the climax they sang out of tune, - to the great disgust of the "prominent gentlemen." The correspondent of the Courant expresses a wish that "prominent men" - which seems to mean students as distinguished from gentlemen - would...
BROWN will not send a Freshman crew to Saratoga. - Courant...