Word: says
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...manner, and the last number of the Courant, which reaches us as we are going to press, rebukes us for a levity which would be objectionable on the score of taste alone, and for which we hasten to express our sincere regret. A college paper, as the Courant justly says, is not the proper place for a religious discussion. But we cannot resist the temptation to say a few words on this matter, especially as it has occupied so much space in our recent exchanges. Religious feeling cannot be criticised and judged like other things; yet, although the semi-familiar...
...vulgarity of the crowd. As I said, tastes differ, and it is well that each should have its representative, but when one sets up bounds outside of which a college student is supposed not to know enough to write, and not to care enough to read, I can only say, "Please...
...Record is extremely religious again, having apparently fallen into the hands of embryo theologians. It has a great deal to say about a new chapel which has just been erected at Yale. It is liberal enough to suggest that required attendance at prayers be dispensed with, as it appears to think that the strength of the religious convictions of the students would secure the presence of a large number at every exercise. The longest editorial in the paper is directed against the heinous sin of Sabbath-breaking, which appears to be startlingly prevalent in New Haven. It appears that...
...feel it my duty to protest against the assumption of such a tone by our instructors. I grieve to say that there exists among the students a class of people who have devoted their lives to the development of their bodies and to the gratification of their more or less depraved tastes, and who have unpardonably neglected the intellect, - the only means we have of attaining truth. These people, glorying in their self-made ignorance, blindly refuse to recognize the great principles upon which our constitution is founded. Their appearance, their manners, their actions, and even their conversation, combine...
...would not be understood to say that we should regard all men alike. There are some whom we should admire and praise; there are others whom we should hate, despise, and execrate. There are two great principles, one of which every man must follow, - the right and the wrong, the true and the false. The truth-teller should be loved, the liar should be hated...