Word: infidelity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true? Can any one justly say that student feeling at Harvard is distinctly irreligious? Are we, simply because we are Harvard students, and that is for the most part the argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind...
...think we may strike a good medium." Just what this means, he proceeds to show by a practical illustration. He has just seduced a married woman, and he tells his friend about her. "In the meantime, my friend," he goes on, "I am happy enough to have a dear infidel; but don't think her unfaithful, I could not love her if she was. There is a baseness in all deceit which my sould is virtuous enough to abhor, and therefore I look with horror on adultery. But my amiable mistress is no longer bound...
Every year a cry arises about "infidelity at Harvard." and goes flying all over the land to arouse discussion and alarm. Every year it becomes necessary for the Harvard papers to denounce any such thing through their editorial columns. In accordance with this good old custom we again take our stand and diny that Harvard is any worse than the rest of the world in religious matters. Just how this rumor begins it is hard to conceive. Probably it is owing to the attempt made to abolish chapel, and to the fact that certain men with infidel views go forth...