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...obslete theory rest in its grave. The present method seems ta satisfy the parties most interested in its success-why not leave it alone? The further recommendation of "making attendance at daily prayers, or at roll call, for those who do not wish to attend prayers, compulsory," is a relic of the illiberal spirit which was already on the wane twenty years ago; a spirit which it would ill become a university like Harvard to adopt...
...deprived of the fence is a stigma of which little conception can be formed here, and we may be sure that Yale will strain every nerve to gain possession of those sacred wooden bars before they are swept away (as they must be shortly) and become a relic of the past. The more honor, then, to our freshmen, if they succeed in gaining possession of the fence, having it handed over to them during their short stay in New Haven by the upper-classmen, as was the case with the delegation which accompanied the Eighty-nine team two years...
...seems but natural that Harvard men should consider a rush or a rough-and-tumble foot-ball game a relic of barbarism, but it is inexplicable how men who have been in Cambridge a year can consider a public drinking bout as more desirous, more manly than these. Perhaps we see here again the indifference which has destroyed our prestige in athletic sports...
...relic of the percentage system which still leaves the class division a truly arbitrary thing is an indication of transtion only. We are confident that when '89 has graduated the notions of per cents will have entirely disappeared...
...some particulars, though great and good in others. One of their exhibitions of narrowness consisted in their condemnation of the celebration of Christmas as an institution of Romanism, a lineal descendant of the east of the Saturnalia of the Pagan Yule Tide, etc. Now a relic of this ancient Puritan narrowness has come down to us in our college regulations making the Christmas recess as short as possible, and fixing it without regard to the day of the week on which Christmas happened to come. Our recess is from four to twelve days shorter than with the majority...