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...last issue. This newspaper is called a "filthy and mendacious contemporary." Such language is in the first place unmerited. It is, moreover, very unbecoming and discourteous for respectable journals to indulge in spiteful warfare. We sometimes see such vituperation in our less civilized college exchanges, but we had never expected to find its counterpart in a newspaper which usually has an air of eminent respectability...
...most useful college is the one which has no dominant sect. At Harvard, where more than one thousand students are gathered together, there is no dominant religious sect, and the probability is that there will never be one. In this state of affairs it is manifestly unjust, and certainly impossible, to force any one set of religious views upon a community so divided in opinion. There are three types of American colleges, distinguished from each other by their religious policies. First, the uncompromising denominational college, in which graduates and instructors have been under one influence all their lives...
...truth be distinctly taught. The term, 'non-sectarian college,' practically means this: 'All Knowledge Imparted Here Except Religious.' The position that young men are likely to take under such a loose, half-hearted religious system, is that of agnosticism. The place occupied by religion should be honorable and unmistakable. Never has the question 'Is life worth living' been asked with such persistency as now. The college teacher should answer it, when questioned by the student under his charge. More than eight hundred Harvard students have petitioned not to be required to attend prayers, and they are supported by the faculty...
...reason why magazines are so popular is that everybody reads them at the same time. No matter in what part of the country one finds himself, he is never at a loss for polite conversation if he has read the latest magazines. And it need not be empty talk, to discuss some striking character of Miss Woolson's or Mr. Howell's, to disagree over an article on the social question, to wonder at the latest scientific discovery. It is not strange that the "Popular Science Monthly" should be so much read at Harvard. It is almost the only college...
...between the American philosophy desired and the power of our agricultural products to feed the nations of Europe, saying that soon those countries will come to us for a philosophy as they now do for our produce. This is a "consummation devoutly to be wished," but which we can never expect, for the mercantile spirit that is so powerful in America to-day is not the one on which a philosophy that is destined to permeate all the peoples of the earth can be built. America has yet to appreciate the fact that it has much to learn...