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...student; as his friends, we have seen those genial qualities which spring from generous impulse and which cement true friendship. We remember, too, at the time, with satisfaction his deep and constant Christian faith and his active Christian influence. At the same time we feel, and desire to express a heartfelt serrow at the loss we have sustained in the early death of one in whom the promise and power of usefulness was so great, and we extend to his family the assurance of our full sympathy in this, their keen affliction...
...that now it is committed to a course which must remain unchanged for some time to come. This could hardly have been said of the college before, within the memory of present undergraduates and only last year changes were wrought which greatly required his presence. We know that we express the hopes of the whole university, that safety and pleasure may attend President Eliot while abroad and that prosperous journeying will return him safe to the university in the fall...
...great blunder. They are trying to win those who are out of the fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion really does not attract, but does repel, those for whose good it is exerted; if it tends to confirm in the irreligious their opposition, and to send them out into the world with - in many cases - a deep-seated aversion for such religious services as they...
...that we can feel sure of having light in the library. we may express our great surprise that it took the college authorities so long to make up their minds to such an important step. All those who aided in this good work and especially those who contributed the great sine qua non deserve the warrant thanks of every man who has the welfare of the University at heart...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Having occasion to examine recently the will of Lewis Morris, executed Nov. 19, 1760, I found in it the following clause: "It is my desire that my son Gouveneur Morris may have the best education that is to be had in England or America, but my express will and directions are that he be never sent for that purpose to the colony of Connecticut least he should imbibe in his youth that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, which is so interwoven in their constitutions that all their art cannot disguise...