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...last communication on the religious controversy which appeared in the Nation loudly denounces sectarianism in college government...
There are few things which will not grow tiresome if brought continually to our notice. The subject of "Religious Decadence at Harvard" is no exception to this rule. The Nation, we are glad to see, has published in its current issue, a complete refutation of the article on the subject published previously. We hope that the discussion will now be allowed to rest. Considerable feeling of a rather sanguinary tinge has already been aroused. As we do not wish to incur the expense of defensive armor, we hail this new expression of confidence in the religious training of Harvard...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In contradiction of the interpretations which you see fit to put upon my views as expressed in the Nation, allow me to make the following statements...
...long the subject of morning prayers has been "tabooed," and why you consider that one is prohibited from speaking of it. Also I wish that the author of your editorial of Saturday would read over once more, carefully, - curbing his excitement as much as possible, - the article in the Nation that so much aroused his anger. If he will do so, it seems to me that he cannot fail to see that he has grossly misrepresented the views therein expressed. And if he thinks it over a little, it seems to me that he will find it rather difficult conscientiously...
...last issue of the Nation contains a new attempt to picture the terrible state of religious feeling at Harvard. Again we hear the antiquated wail that our "study of geology and of the doctrines of evolution" have slowly disintegrated our belief in the "old Bible stories of creation." We are represented as believing that "all religion is a sham, well enough for our ancestors and for old women, but, in the light of modern science, a mere delusion." The pen of the enlightened writer does not pause before that tabooed subject, "compulsory prayers." How pleasing and how refreshing...