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...Harvard man could listen save with sincere respect to any words that Dr. Hale might say concerning the college. Dr. Hale's sympathy and interest towards Harvard are fully understood and appreciated. And yet we believe that hardly a student read his letter in the last Advocate without a sharp feeling of disappointment at his apparent misunderstanding of our position on the prayer question. Dr. Hale ought to be careful how he makes mistakes. He stands too high in the regard of the college to risk them with safety...
...point on which Dr. Hale in his letter lays most stress is that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured the student. "We grant great freedom in the choice of study. But, we do not mean to have any senior . . . . say to us that since he entered college no one ever told him that there is a difference between Right and Wrong." This is trite enough, of course. No one denies for a moment that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured. But is the only way of affording this moral guidance by means...
Latin Readings. The Speeches and Mithridates' Letter from Sallust's Histories. Mr. Preble. Sever...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - There appeared in the Nation for February 4, a very suggestive letter by Mr. F. A. Carpenter, '85. The subject was a comparison of the so-called schools of political science in this country with the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques at Paris. He advocated the establishment of a school at Washington, similar to the Ecole Libre; and he showed why the existing schools in this country could not take the place of the proposed one. "Such a school" he says, "ought to be situated at the national capital, where is the center of administration...
...Thursday's Nation appeared a second letter from Mr. Page, whose article we published yesterday. A short synopsis of the letter may not be uninteresting to our readers...