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...department of Historical and Political Science is under the direction of Professor Sloane and of the professor of Political Science. Professor Sloane conducts a class of about fifteen in the methods of historical research, and next year he will give a new course of lectures on "The History of Political Theory...
...being the only one of the kind. It bears the same relation to the college as the Episcopal school does and has all the privileges of the Library. It contains a museum of Bible objects, which is always open to the public, and which is gradually being improved as research goes on in the Holy Land...
...ancient world worshiped. The central interest of the Delphic temple has been so closely connected with the growth and cultivation of the ancient languages, it was expected that from all the colleges of the land contributions and aid would come from the departments devoted to classical study and research. It belonged to Harvard as the foremost college in the country, to take the lead and show herself a worthy exemplar in such a matter. As yet, however, little practical interest has been shown here at Cambridge in the affair. Professor Norton himself, has been indefatigable and has been well seconded...
...Hannis Taylor, of Mobile, Ala., has made one of the most important recent contributions to constitutional history, in the form of a treatise on the Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, in which is drawn out, by the light of the most recent researches, the gradual development of the English constitutional system and the growth out of that system of the federal republic of the United States. Mr. Taylor is a writer of the school of Freeman and Fiske, who find in constitutional history a gradual evolution of the principles of government. To students of American history the introductory...
Professor William James of the Philosophical department, presided at the annual meeting of the American Society of Psychical Research on Tuesday evening in Boston. It was voted to discontinue the American society as a separate organization and form an American branch of the English society. Professor James delivered an interesting address on the recent progress of psychical research in England, France, and elsewhere. He is American canvasser for the International Congress of Psychologists, which is soon to issue a census of hallucinations...