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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...class debates. The system, as changed, retains the class clubs, but at stated intervals these clubs are to hold debates with one another. These debates are not to be made more prominent than the regular club debates and are not to displace the interclass debates; but they are meant to cause more interest by introducing a variety into the ordinary routine debates...
...affirmative it was maintained that Major Low was bound to enforce these laws legally and morally and by every consideration of expedience. That while there were certain dead laws on the statutes which could be ignored, the excise laws commanded immediate enforcement and that non-enforcement meant a return to Tammany rule. The case of the negative rested on two main points--that Mayor Low is justified in not enforcing the excise law, first, because the conditions make it impossible; and, secondly, that because strict enforcement would have a demoralizing effect it was necessary, reasonable and just to accept...
...Great American Universities Told by Noted Graduates," is the title of the latest collection of college fiction. Graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia, West Point, Annapolis, Cornell and Chicago, graduates, who have already made names for themselves in contemporary fiction, have written these stories which are meant to be more or less indicative of the life of the different colleges represented...
This number of the Monthly--to repeat--will be found unusually interesting for its true and sympathetic appreciation, from several points of view, of what the Yale bicentennial meant to the College and what it disclosed in regard to the character and spirit of Yale...
...thoroughly religious they must be, in their own spheres, missionaries. If religion is to them a vital thing, a part of the very fibre of their lives and their interests, as it is meant to be, they cannot in conscience keep from trying to spread it. What wonder that religion is sometimes called a weak and effeminate thing, what wonder that it is often robbed of its influence and uplifting power, when men hide it in the solitary musings of their minds, and date not, or care not to die out it must grow through unselfish service and through philanthropic...