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...solemnly announced that with the spring season the present fashion of tight-fitting clothes is to disappear, and a sudden change will be made to loose and slippered pantaloons, if we may pervert the quotation...
...pleasant future gazing upon a delusive vacuity of non-realization of its beloved scheme. That co-education does (perhaps very properly) assert its existence at other colleges is not an argument for its adoption at all - at Harvard among the rest. That Harvard is in any way bound to pervert its generous endowment, founded for exclusive purposes, which it is now faithfully fulfilling, and to admit women to all these privileges, while there are already entirely adequate means for the higher education of women provided at other colleges, we do not at all believe. If, however, in the course...
...Lincoln, Governor of Massachusetts, vindicating the College against the charge of sectarianism, which had been brought on the ground that the daily religious services were performed by professors in the Theological School. 'It is alleged,' he says, 'that the prayers are made by the professors in Theology, and may pervert the minds of the pupils. Surely no one in New England can contend that so large a family should not have any morning and evening prayers. It is true that the Theological Professors pray; but who else should pray? And, after all, what is the objection to their prayers...