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...casting of restraint after restraint, in order that at last all traces of connection with the supernatural shall disappear and the slavery and degradation of pure secularism shall be complete, until at last religion and the mystery of life shall be forever dissipated, and the thin, hard and colorless relic which is left shall be staring upon us in the glare of the electric light which men choose to call by the great name of science. Either of these ways of looking at it all is possible. But there is yet another and a higher possibility. There...
...rule, does display a great fondness for conflagrations, and his encouraging presence does much to promote the efficiency of the work done by the Cambridge fireman. Now this tendency to "run with the machine" may be accounted for in two ways. In the first place, it may be a relic of the student feeling which resulted in the formation of the old "Harvard Engine Company." This supposition has an air of probability from the fact that the chemical engine now used by the Cambridge firemen was a gift from the college to the city, - hence, the students feel that they...
...every student who is allowed to write a blue book in an examination where there are no proctors, to feel that an opportunity is given him to show what a student should be, and thereby to demonstrate the feasibility of a general abolition of this sign of depravity, this relic of distrust in a student's honor that should have passed away with the old notions of college espionage...
...first two or three issues this joke amused the freshmen, who had not heard it before; but even with them the novelty has now worn off. And, of course, to upper-classmen the name is as old as the CRIMSON. It was shown us as a choice relic when we were fresh in the happy autumn of '82. So what we call for is not that the Lampoon cease getting off jokes, but that it concoct something...
...chapel petition. It would seem that Harvard, the source of the most liberal and progressive religious views of America, ought to be the first to do away with compulsory observance of religious forms. But, advanced as Harvard may be in its elective system and general spirit, yet this relic of puritanic times still hangs on her, a fetish of the present. The arguments against the system are too well known to be repeated, yet silent demurring will never accomplish the end that is so earnestly desired. As Franklin said: "Keep pegging away;" thus only is it possible to cast...