Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those who protest against it, nor do they take into account the inevitable effect of compulsion in the minds of those who unwillingly submit. It is from those who do not feel the weight of compulsion that instructors are selected, who are in course of time to take part, in some colleges, in the government of the institution and to carry with them into the Faculty the views which they held before graduation. The abolition of compulsion would not work to the spiritual injury of these undergraduates. On the other hand, there are students who are led by this compulsory...
...PART I.1. Persian Patrol...
...committee, instead of trying to prohibit the game, consult with those among us who understand the game of foot ball, as to what changes in the rules will do away with the "brutal" part of the game, (for, as Prof. Byerly has said, and he probably voices the opinion of the other members of the Committee, the dangerous element of the game is the least objectionable, especially since that would be greatly done away with, if the "brutal" element were eliminated.) Let us then have a chance to make the necessary changes in the rules at the convention...
...approval. Let it be remembered, however, that the reason of this opposition last year was not so much because we were unwilling to see changes made in the rules, as because we were unwilling to submit to what seemed to us an arrogant and high-handed proceeding on the part of the committee, in springing changes on us just before the Yale game, and thus trying to force us to accept them. These conditions, happily, are now changed, and this opposition has changed to a spirit of co-operation...
COMPULSORY PRAYERS.-Harvard college students have begun a "crusade" against morning prayers, in the hope of abolishing compulsory attendance upon them. When a Harvard student has been up the greater part of the night bedaubing with black paint the bronze statue of the founder of the institution, or painting in the same fashion the name of his class on the outside of the chapel, it is a hardship to make him rise in the morning and go to prayers. He is naturally exhausted with his night's struggle in behalf of the "black letter" art, and needs the sleep...