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...seems most wise, if in this country, Saturday and Sunday do not afford sufficient time for specific religious instruction, and since churches are evidently unwilling to entrust parents with imparting such teaching, that the public school should be made acceptable to all denominations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dangers to our Public School System. | 4/5/1886 | See Source »

...influencing the Overseers, in case of an adverse decision upon the petition. Even supposing the present petition to be ineffectual in securing the desired end, yet the grounds upon which its rejection will be based will be invaluable as guides for the actions of those to whom we must entrust the agitation of this reform after our own college lives have ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/24/1886 | See Source »

...dignified proportions of a riot, as many of our sister colleges can testify, and as the Boston press reports of Thursday's rush may be cited to prove. Another point which the students engaged in the melee should have remembered is, that the faculty may think it unwise to entrust the control of student matters to a conference committee, of whose members many are to be drawn from the two classes chiefly at fault in the recent display of boyish thoughtlessness. We feel sure that the scenes of Thursday night will not be enacted again, yet that they should have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/10/1885 | See Source »

...resolution to entrust the conduct of such celebrations to the good sense of the students alone, passed the faculty by what was practically a unanimous vote. An approach to unanimity is not of very frequent occurrence when that body votes on matters of general policy, and in this case it proves how strong a desire now exists there to let the students govern themselves, wherever such government appears likely to succeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter from Professor James Concerning Celebrations. | 6/8/1885 | See Source »

...being selected. The only drawback is that no Harvard man was chosen to form part of the remainder of the team. Harvard certainly deserved a place on it for the reasons mentioned above. But the men already selected are supposed to be impartial, and we shall have to entrust the chances of our men to their judgment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1884 | See Source »

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