Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...benefit by the outlay of time and money required for a university education ?" The so-called "self-made men" point with a just pride to Abraham Lincoln and to Peter Cooper and ask . "What better men than these, do the colleges turn out ?" It is not my purpose to discuss how many college men may be but pedants and dreamers, nor to attempt to prove that "self-made men" may be woefully lacking in all real worth, but my object is simply to show by taking representatives from Harvard alone, how many of the foremost men in America...
SENIOR FORENSICS.The first Forensic will be due Nov. 1. Subjects as follows : 1. In the history of the past have wars helped or hindered the progress of civilization ? 2. Discuss the comparative inducements to the study of law and theology. 3. Is a working knowledge of the French and German languages essential to the graduates of American colleges ? 4. Define the sensational in literature...
...Wendell will meet the junior class in Sever 11 on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 2 P. M., to discuss the principles of descriptive writing. He will receive the names of men who wish to devote special attention to writing...
...conferring a degree upon the governor, and having thus committed the great institution to a policy of narrow-minded exclusiveness utterly unworthy of it, and, so far as we have been able to judge, condemned by the sons of the college generally, perhaps it is unprofitable to further discuss the matter. As Dundreary used to say to his valet, "You go to the devil and there you are." Harvard has simply made a fool of herself, and that is all there is to it. All the camels that she has put down without a grimace have made her struggles...
...Western man widely known as a protectionist has challenged Prof. Sumner to discuss the tariff question in New Haven before an audience of Yale students and the public...