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...five designated buildings. The tradition has been built up, and in the process all the arguments have been exhausted--save that of success. The dormitories themselves have been restored, until it would seem that the only remaining objection is the persistent and premature college bell, which lingers tenaciously, the firmest of traditions, in the face of many campaigns to silence it. But even that becomes less offensive by familiarity, and takes on sentiment with its fellow traditions...
What makes the "Tribune's" rude disclosure so embarrassing is that only a few weeks past word came from Cambridge in old England that in its opinion our Harvard-Radcliffe arrangement was perfect. How the firmest foundations crumble and totter in these cruel days! If we uttered a prayer not long ago that Cornell be saved for mankind from the inroads of ambitious women, we utter the same prayer for ourselves more fervently than over, now that our danger has been demonstrated to be so close and so real. To the pessimist there can be little hope; to the optimists...
...made clear by President Lowell, Professor Palmer, and Dr. Fitch, each emphasizing what to him is most significant in a College man's religion. President Lowell put the stress on the infinity of purpose, influence are responsibility, and what these things should mean to the man who seeking the firmest foundation. Just as the captain of a vessel is responsible for the lives of others and is distrusted if he admits incompetency, so are all men responsible for the lives of others, not only in their own generation but in an unknown and infinite posterity...
This is far different from bigotry. Liberality permits us to be men of the firmest convictions, fearless of all that is fault. It does not give us a scorn for other creeds, but brings us confidence in our own and makes the truth more evident. Let the world know the truth. Let the church be known, and the beauty of her features will make every man do her reverence...
While feeling the keenest sympathy for the splendid young life at Harvard and having the firmest belief in the manliness and honor of the great majority of the students, I should nevertheless be lacking in my duty to them and to the Alma Mater were I not to express myself strongly in condemnation of an event which lately took place in Boston, flagrant in its selfishness and utter disregard of the rights of others...