Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...often found difficult to assemble the fifteen who constitute a quorum. The statements which have been made in regard to the catholicity which prevails here are beyond all cavil. Not only is it true that the College authorities studidiously avoid anything which might influence the religious opinions of a student, but the students themselves are not sharply divided by doctrinal lines, nor do they make their religion, when they have any, a barrier to separate them from others less correct than themselves. We often see the member of one denomination figuring as an earnest listener to the prayers and sermons...
AGED PROFESSOR (to student at end of bench). Why is yonder organ like unto a widow...
...long since, an article was published which discussed the present system of college penalties. At that time almost every student was delighted with the near prospect of voluntary recitations and the abolition of morning prayers. Then it was the custom to praise the Faculty for their liberal opinions in regard to college discipline. Then, too, some cherished the hope that in no long time this childish system of privates and publics would be done away with. That the rule against smoking in the yard had been set aside, was considered the first step in this direction. For some time, also...
...hardly more in the matter of their instruction than in their religious views (how then can there be an unbalanced effort to lead us from the strait way?); that Sears and Peabody were reared at Cambridge equally with Abbot, and now exert a more decided influence; that the average student bothers himself very little with doctrinal disputation, is careless concerning the opinions of Emerson and Hale, and graduates, as his fathers did before him, supposing that he believes the dogmas of the sect in which he was born; that it is as impossible to express by a single word...
...towards infidelity. The Professors are much to blame for this. True, they do not directly inculcate bad principles. They are too wily to do that. They prefer to accomplish their end, in a safer and surer way, by the subtle teaching of manners and acts. Among the more abandoned students many a conspiracy is hatched; in cold blood they often settle on the best plan of working the religious ruin of some fellow-student, and ruthlessly execute it. All of us are familiar with the method of a young man's ruin. We know the lad who entered college...