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With the appearance of caps and gowns yesterday came the usual startling revelations. Friends whom we had always held in high regard betrayed a lamentable lack of acquaintance with Latin. That yellow stain upon the Senior's vestment of culture mars the reputations of men who once walked in high honor among...
...ceremonials only, on which his power once lay. He must rest his reputation now on an exposition of the best and clearest literary effort of the best thinkers. Necessarily such an appeal can have little effect on the "less-thinking" part of the population, for whom ceremonial and vestment will always be attractive. In the Protestant Church, however, exhortation and counsel, will keep their place...
...vestment of gold-tinged cloud...