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...tariff questions; but the former confines itself to the universal suffrage, forms of government, and the conduct of government. Political science is of a very recent date, and is better known in England than anywhere else. The history of France is very interesting in this respect, showing the continual progress towards government by the people. Our constitutional history is entirely confined to the making of constitutions, and there has been no study of its subsequent working. But there is much ground for study in our town and city government, and also a deplorable lack of knowledge on the subject...
...department, and he was therefore glad of the opportunity to explain his position and that of the college on the subject. Hellenism, he said, was the most precious motive, after Christianity, in the intellectual life of today, and whoever would remove it would do a great wrong. But the progress of discovery had opened new heavens and earths. Whole sets of new studies has grown into existence, and Harvard was endeavoring to accommodate the old standards of culture to the new conditions. There was no disposition to undervalue Greek and Latin. The only desire was in keeping...
...there were only two colleges whose intellectual and physical contests arrest the attention and arouse the enthusiasm of the American people-Harvard and Yale. He hoped they would never come nearer together, but go on each endeavoring to show its own system to be the best, for that meant progress in education...
SENIOR FORENSICS.Third forensic, due on Feb. 26, from 2 to 4 P. M., in Sever 1. Subjects: 1. Does the history of progress favor utilitarianism? 2. May virtuous acts be defined as those which tend to produce happiness? 3. "You cannot make men moral by Act of Parliament" (comment on this statement). 4. Should district and State boundaries be obliterated or ignored in the election of representatives and senators in the United States? 5. Compare Grant and Lee as military commanders...
...students, the faculty of Harvard College have adopted a policy directly contrary to the one that has been in force so long and with such good effects,-the policy of non-interference. Their action can be looked at as nothing less than a long step back ward in the progress of Harvard toward the ideal university, and what makes this step more unendurable is its absolute uselessness. We have been yielding gradually to the views of the faculty on this point, and have tacitly been granting the necessity of some regulation of athletics. But, to state the question in plain...