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...Godkin lectures for the current year will be given by Arthur George Sedgwick '64, of New York, on "Some Unsettled Questions Relating to Popular Government." The dates and the special subjects are as follows: March 29--"The Operation of Government"; March 31--"The Principle of Responsibility"; April 2--"The Democratic Mistake"; April 5--"Patronage and Popular Government"; April 7--"The Suffrage"; April 8--"Limitations." The lectures will all be given in Emerson D at 8 o'clock and will be open to the public...
...forced to retire from the army on account of ill health and he entered the Harvard Law School in 1867. After his graduation from the Law School he practiced law in Boston and with Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 edited the American Law Review. In 1875 Mr. Sedgwick moved to New York and was admitted to the bar there. He was for some years on the editorial staff of the Evening Post and of the Nation and has besides written several treatises...
Next year's team will be greatly handicapped by the loss of Ford, Willetts and Washburn, who made undoubtedly the strongest and best-developed defense that Harvard has ever had. It will be necessary to develop practically new material for these positions. In spite of this weakness, the fast line of forwards who have played together throughout the season and who will all return, gives reasonable ground for expecting another good team next year...
...Eaton was until recently dramatic critic of the New York Sun, and has written much for other papers and for magazines. He is also author of "The American Stage of Today...
Owing to the success of the French lectureships established by Mr. J. H. Hyde '98, of New York, at the University and elsewhere in the United States, Mr. Hyde offered in 1904 to found a similar course at the Sorbonne on American literature and institutions. The University of Paris accepted the offer, with the understanding that the course was to be made permanent if it was successful the first year. Professor Barrett Wendell '77 was the first American lecturer, spending the year 1904-05 at the Sorbonne and other French universities, where he lectured on "American Literature, Manners, Customs...