Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week is enough for salvation." It is urged by the opponents of compulsory chapel, that the only reason for attendance is the keeping up of an old custom. Well, it seems to me, if that were the only reason, it ought to have considerable weight. Don't we speak of the college as our "Alma Mater?" and are not we, the students, in a certain sense all members of one great family? And is it not fitting that the family should all be together once every day? I can't see why it should be considered a hardship to attend...
...excellent communication from N. G. on the foot ball question was crowded out from this morning's issue. N. G. should be present and speak at the hearing this evening...
...interests of the various athletic organizations. Resolutions were adopted to this effect, and plans were discussed for improvement in athletics. The president of the college then addressed the meeting on the subject of boating, -would that our President might take such active interest in our sports, as to speak directly to us and not at us! He referred to his own connection with athletics during his collegiate days at Yale, and of the deep interest he took in them, especially in boating. He spoke of the clumsy, awkward boats in use at that time, as broad as they were long...
...with a sense of hopelessness that we speak again on the subject of chapel going, for the only return that the protests of the students have received hitherto is a contemptuous silence. We state definitely, that we have full sympathy with any attempt to do away with compulsory attendance at prayers. And although we view the present movement to that end as doomed to failure, still, we trust that every undergraduate will sign the "petition," in order to express once more the feeling with which this foolishly wrong custom of chapol-going is regarded. At any rate...
...financial success of the eleven we are not yet prepared to speak. The audience at the Princeton game was gratifyingly large, but the minor games were somewhat meagerly attended...