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...other churches. We believe that many men are waiting for the evening chapel to begin and that they imagine, in the meanwhile, that they are not drawing on their precious store of "cuts." Whether the change was due to a vacancy in the college chaplainship or to some more occult cause, we are unable to state, but that it has succeeded in inconveniencing a large number of students is very evident by the occasional murmurs of disapproval which reach our ears. But we can safely prophesy that, if the authorities hope to draw a congregation in the evenings from...
...fifty years' standing. Brown, who was something of an athlete, could tell me a little about the nine, and the crew, and that sort of thing; but there his information ended. Stiggs, a somewhat different character, confined his thoughts and his talk to recent philological discoveries, and to certain occult events in mediaeval history. And the one man who seemed to have a little general information turned out to be the editor of a paper, so that, after all, he was talking shop...
Desiring to correlate the large circulation of the Nation with the quality of the Harvard student, it was found necessary by our author to discover in that paper some occult and fruitful principle of evil. What then is this incubus that has fastened itself upon our devoted College? What is the Merlin-charm that has drained our life...