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...item column of a recent number of the Yale News. whatever this mysterious utterance may mean, we must remonstrate with our esteemed contemporary for permitting such dangerous secrets to be thus rudely brought to the garish light of day in its columns. It is such things as these that fasten the sligma of indiscretion and irresponsibility upon the college press. The News has been indiscreet; let it reform...
...Yale graduate has published an appeal to students in general and Yale men in particular to stop the growing evil of gambling. He says, "years of toleration have enabled it to fasten itself on students' life with the tenacity of a tumor on the human vitals, so that reform may call for heroic action." To overcome this evil he suggests among other means, "a resolution calling for action at the next annual meeting of the inter-collegiate Y. M. C. A., in order that a crusade against gambling in all colleges may be called...
...then our Heavenly Father saw fit in His infinite wisdom to permit a sickness to fasten on him that prepared the way for death to make an easy conquest. And now the joyous song that had been singing so continuously all through his life is hushed and almost smothered by the sobs of this great sorrow, while "all that are about him bemoan him; all that know his name say now is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod." At this interruption of his earthly life we reverently pause and ask, What virtues has it made emphatic? What lessons...