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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Williams' new paper, the Fortnight. has just reached the office of the CRIMSON. It contains fourteen large sized pages of reading matter. It is one of the largest of college bi-weeklies...
...Circulation. The "Advocate" would put the literary matter published before a much larger number of readers. A monthly might possibly be started with only 150 subscribers. The largest number it would expect the first year would be, say, 200. (This is a liberal estimate, considering that the Lampoon has very few, if any, more, after a strong appeal to the college). If a new Monthly could get 300 subscribers, the "Advocate," doing the same work and as much of it, could add, say 100 to its present list of 425. That is, the Monthly would have not more than...
...special committee, the Rev. Phillips Brooks, who now occasionally performs the service asked to be made voluntary. There was a manifest impropriety in putting any clergyman on such a committee, much more two who may fairly be called interested parties. The petition of the undergraduates was the largest ever known, and the college faculty is notoriously strongly in favor of making prayers 'elective.' The incident is one more evidence of the growing antagonism between the overseers and the faculty, the only natural governing power in the university...
...better or for worse," says Mr. Towne, "the permanent influence at Harvard are those of liberty and learning, in the largest sense, and Unitarianism has specially represented these influences in the religious world. If Unitarianism had proved a great success, Harvard would have been the centre and seat of that success. The state of religion at Harvard is due to the failure of Unitarianism. The outcome of Unitarianism and of modernism generally at Harvard, as it may be seen by several distinct signs, is one of critical scepticism and religious indifferentism or unbelief, which leaves religion in a state...
...continuance of life, to say nothing of the gaining of profit from a lecture. In view of these facts, then, cannot more attention be given hereafter to the proper ventilation and cooling of the N. H. 4 lecture room-a room that is resorted to by one of the largest sections in college...