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...Boston Herald editorially expresses its belief that compulsory attendance at chapel is a relic of the Dark Ages. It says that "religion cannot be thrust down men's throats...
...implied in the vote of the corporation and overseers. It is much to be regretted, however, that the college authorities are compelled to take any action on such a matter as this. Far better would it have been for the graduates, acting by classes, to have surpressed this last relic of less manly days, then to have obliged the coporation by feeble and negative means to attempt to enforce dicipline over graduates to which under-classmen alone are subject...
...take seasonable precautions for ensuring the health of the students. Many serious colds have their origin in this building. If it is impossible to heat the building, let it be abandoned. Sever is surely large enough to furnish room for the examinations. Let Massachusetts be kept carefully, as a relic and reminiscence of by-gone days; that is all it is good for. I hope the students can be aroused to a state of righteous indignation about this matter, as it is of great importance to all. I do not know whose duty it is to take charge...
...relic of the days of Roman rule...
...LONE relic of the bygone days...