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...supply its army and navy with efficient men; and we see no reason why it should not provide some school to prepare men for the civil service. For in these time of peace, a capable administration of the common public business is of as much importance to the nation, as skilfull management of its armies and navies. Moreover, we think that a university which educates men for law or medicine is but widening its usefulness when it founds a school to drill men for public life. But though such work could best be carried on at Washington it does...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - There appeared in the Nation for February 4, a very suggestive letter by Mr. F. A. Carpenter, '85. The subject was a comparison of the so-called schools of political science in this country with the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques at Paris. He advocated the establishment of a school at Washington, similar to the Ecole Libre; and he showed why the existing schools in this country could not take the place of the proposed one. "Such a school" he says, "ought to be situated at the national capital, where is the center of administration...
...Page, in his letters to the Nation, has brought to light statistics that are very gratifying to Harvard. No doubt, to a great extent, the story that they seem to tell is true, but, on the other hand, Harvard men must not be carried away by facts that have to do only with outward growth. Unless there has been an inward growth in some degree commensurate, it would be more than folly to pride ourselves on appearances. We do not call attention to this possible fallacy with the intention of asserting that there is foundation for it in Harvard...
...Thursday's Nation appeared a second letter from Mr. Page, whose article we published yesterday. A short synopsis of the letter may not be uninteresting to our readers...
...issue of The Nation for Feb. 18th, was published a letter from Mr. Edward D. Page, a graduate of Yale, under the title, "Two Decades of Yale and Harvard - A Retrospect." It is a comparison of the history of Yale and Harvard for the last fifteen years. It would be difficult to give a clearer statement of the facts and figures than Mr. Page has done here. We copy as follows...