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...Gondoliers.The second week of The Gondoliers began last evening at the Globe Theatre. The crowded house and the liberal applauselit bestowed on the charming opera gave ample evidence that the popularity of Gilbert and Sullivan's latest work is by no means on the wane...
...religious tone and feelings of the university seemed to be undergoing something of a crisis; and it was at that point that the great undergraduate body of men showed, by their enthusiastic support of the Globe meetings, that religious tendencies at Harvard were on the increase rather than the wane. Since that time we believe that the religious life of the men here at Cambridge has grown more healthy, and that the same readiness will be displayed by them in taking a lively interest in the aid and encouragement of the present meetings. The gatherings will be held every Sunday...
...satisfy the parties most interested in its success-why not leave it alone? The further recommendation of "making attendance at daily prayers, or at roll call, for those who do not wish to attend prayers, compulsory," is a relic of the illiberal spirit which was already on the wane twenty years ago; a spirit which it would ill become a university like Harvard to adopt...
...fully a third as large again as the entrance classes of ten years ago. In the college alone there is a gain of 124 students over last year. These facts attest that the prosperity which has marked Harvard's career in the past is not yet on the wane, and that we may look forward to the time when our classes will equal in numbers those of the large English universities. The number of scholarships has been largely increased by recent bequests, and we can assert with greater truth than ever that no man need fear, on the score...
...closing invocation is one which we are thankful to say, our faculty does not sanction; and if every game is as free from the objectionable features as Saturday's was, the career of foot-ball not only is not on the wane but has before it greater opportunities than any it has yet embraced...