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...help to keep more in sympathy graduates and under-graduates. It is nearly impossible for graduates of many years standing, especially when they reside in distant states or countries, to keep in accord with undergraduate opinion and action. We are often misunderstood by those outside the college, and not seldom by those who were once in our position. Therefore it seems to us that the magazine will help to remedy this difficulty which is not, after all, so inconsiderable. Moreover the form of the magazine is one greatly in its favor. Far from appearing in a newspaper shape like...
...side of our college life, being a marked and standing custom since the institution of the University. Because they are voluntary, they should not be cast aside and neglected; they make an excellent and earnest beginning of the day's work, and we are growing nowadays to find too seldom even a few moments for prayer and meditation. Although we shall have regretable losses in the Board of Preachers for this year the new comers are men known for their earnestness in religious work and thoroughly interested in broadening the religious side of the University. That these prayers have important...
Down to the end of the eighteenth century, the official language of the college was Latin, and the Class-day orators seldom attempted the vernacular. But the Latin verse was difficult and the poets from the first appear to have written in English. Toward the end of the last century the orators began to incline toward their mother tongue and this occasioned a remonstrance from the faculty in the form of a regulation, passed in 1802, that "in future no performance but a valedictory oration in the Latin language * * * be permitted" on Class-day. The faculty was soon forced from...
Gentlemen: - We had an exhibition yesterday of ungentlemanly conduct that has seldom been surpassed at Cambridge...
...indeed seldom that the Y. M. C. A. holds a more earnest and satisfactory meeting than that which took place in their rooms last evening. The subject for discussion was "The Relation of College Men to Foreign Missions" and R. H. Kennedy '93 was was in charge. It is the duty of all Christians, he began by saying, to give themselves to Christ and to spend their lives where they can do the most good. The time has passed when we can look upon foreign missionary work with mere enthusiasm alone. There are now 1500 million people in the world...