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These wicked college students bring perfect godsends in the shape of subjects for editorials to the Post and other virtuous papers of the country. The recent Yale rush will be good for a column probably. Another case must not be overlooked by the Post in this connection. Last Tuesday a party of sophomores of Lafayette University, marching with a band to a banquet, were interrupted by a discordant band of freshmen with tin-horns. Thereupon, a rush took place, finally resulting in the arrest of three of the party by the police...
...accustomed to having everything made subservient to our whims that if our slightest suggestion fail to meet with instantaneous notice, we cry out that our privileges are being curtailed, our rights infringed upon. Our virtuous indignation so blinds us that we do not wait to investigate the facts involved, but rush headlong into violent upbraidings of those whom we consider the authors of the supposed wrong. The recent complaints with regard to the hours for closing the Gymnasium are a case in point. An interview with Dr. Sargent clears up the whole matter. The real reason for the present regulation...
...capacity for becoming benevolent, patient, humble, and loving, depends, however, in no way on the particular creed of the individual. In times past it was quite common to insist that, in order to be virtuous, a man must entertain certain beliefs about the nature and origin of the Universe, about Immortality, Free Will, &c. Now it is different. If popular education has done any thing at all, it is to show to the satisfaction of every clear-headed thinker that one may believe that the sun stands still, and yet be a bad man; while another may believe that...
...real good fellows who are trying faithfully to smother all the vice that is in our midst; that our instructors are Christian gentlemen who are ably seconding our efforts; and that the most discouraging thing we have to contend with is the ungenerous action of those who raise their virtuous voices to call in the public, whenever our efforts have for a moment hailed...
...hear some dismally virtuous youth remark, "Unless we now improve our time, success in life will never be ours...