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Dates: during 1890-1899
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William Henry Schofield, A. B. Victoria Univ., Ont., 1889; A. M. Harvard, 1893; third year Graduate School; second year Morgan Fellow; to study English and the Modern Languages...
...courses for the next year have now been tabulated. The class of '97 will devote more time than any previous class has done to work in Political Science. The course in Roman Law is taken by seventy-three juniors and seniors. Over two hundred have taken the course in Modern Novels. Except for these new courses, there has been but little change in the distribution of the courses...
...against Japan before the landing of large bodies of troops in Corea. With her sea communication cut off, Japan's army could have been starved out of Corea, and she could never have carried on a campaign in China. The Chinese had not the mechanical turn required for the modern warships. They are not essentially seamen like the Japanese. China is divided into provinces differing from one another in speech and manners. In fact, there is no Chinese nation. Add to this lack of homogeneity and cooperation a total lack of discipline, and you have a hopeless condition of affairs...
...meeting of the Wendell Phillips Club last night the subject was: "Resolved, that the modern ethical drama has a bad effect on public morals." R. H. E. Starr '96 and H. G. Gray '97 spoke for the affirmative, R. B. Sprague '97 and F. D. Pollak '96 on the negative. The vote on the merits of the debate resulted in favor of the negative. The next meeting of the club will be especially for freshmen who wish to compete for membership. There will be one more meeting after that for the election of officers...
...lately have had access to her literature. The Chinese, on the other hand, have not been looking forward to war. Her people are traders and merchants, not soldiers. There is no system in the army, and the officers are thoroughly corrupt. The greater part of the funds appropriated for modern fortifications and ordnance has gone into the pockets of the mandarins. The outcome was almost self-evident to those who understood affairs in the East. It is not the Chinese soldier who is at fault, but the whole theory of the government. The Chinese have many of the traits...