Word: united
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...foot races at the Olympic games were of three lengths - namely, once over the course or "stadion," as it was called, and which became the unit of the Greek road measure, being 600 Greek feet, equal to 606 feet 9 inches English: twice over it - that is, from one end to the other and back again; and the third 12, 20, or 24 times over, for the various reports are not clear as to which it was. Taking the longest distance, this would only be 14.562 English feet, or just over two and three-quarter miles; and yet when...
...from lack of space, we are informed that our editorial opinions do not meet the approbation of the gentlemen with whose correspondence we are honored. We are told that the abolition of chapel will tend to diminish the spiritual and material welfare of the college, and that, as a unit, our students are not in favor of the change. Moreover, we are taken to task for handling our correspondent's letter too severally. We are told that our claims to age and experience are not sufficient to entitle us to the right of assuming the guidance of the university...
Against these dissenting murmurs what defence can the CRIMSON make? Briefly, this. We claim that the students of this college, as a unit, desire the abolition of compulsory chapel, and we look to the completion of the canvass which is at present going on, for confirmation of this statement. Nobody has ever for a moment supposed that there would not be a small minority which would favor the existing regime, but we confidently predict that the entire student body, practically, wishes its abolition. Any claims to superior age or wisdom, we wish modestly to deny: it has always been...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -There has been a great deal said in your paper about doing away with compulsory attendance at prayers, and in Wednesday's paper we were treated editorially with the startling announcements that "the college was a unit against it," and that chapel going was responsible for much of the infidelity for which Harvard has become notorious. How the writer arrived at the latter conclusion from the arguments he used is a conundrum. He says the Harvard authorities have decided that it is only necessary to worship God four times a week, while formerly seven times...
...enough for voluntary recitations are fully capable of responsibility on matters of religion. This, too, is generally recognized. The sole reason we have compulsory attendance at prayers, at present, is apparently because it is an old custom. Public sentiment is against it; the college is a unit against it; and yet not a move is made to put this bugbear down...