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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - President Dwight has addressed the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale. He admits both free-will and the unavoidable force of circumstances. He continues with an exhortation to avoid extremes and then expresses his supreme confidence in Yale. He says the Yale student of to-day should be "just what the Yale student of the pasthas been." It is of course, just and proper for the heads of institutions to believe in his work. But to deny the necessity of improvement is unworthy of an educated man, much more of the president of a university. The great...
...historical students have a library called the Bluntschli Library, entirely separate from the main library. It numbers ten thousand bound volumes and there are perhaps as many pamphlets more. A specially noteworthy feature is what is called the Bluntschli-Lieber collection, set off by itself in a separate case. It is justly regarded as the most important possession of the library. It was obtained in this way. In 1882, the German citizens of Baltimore purchased the private library of Bluntschli, including his student notebooks of the lectures of Savigny and Niebuhr, and generously presented it to the Historical Library...
...Roman Law, under Prof. Emmott. (4.) Historical Criticism, under Dr. Jameson. The methods of work may be classified. as threefold: (1.) Class lectures. (2.) Outside reading on specified topics. (3.) Original research, as evinced by essays and short monographs. The aim of instruction is to make the student self-reliant. Work is done rather by topics than by text-books...
...social pleasure could ever be hindered by the non use of liquors. A man who doesn't drink in college is like a man who is restricting his expenses somewhat in order to take a life insurance policy. The greatest claim to be urged for abstinence is that the student will enter the struggle of life with one handicap the less...
...arousing it to a better appreciation of the ills of the "working men." The article should be read by all who have any desire to express themselves on the History of the Knights of Labor. Mr. Wright should be congratulated in producing something that is of worth to the student, when so much nowadays is apt to contain no data, only reflections. In showing how sincere and earnest the Knights are, an attitude of ardor and benevolence is created by Mr. Wright, but the details of the strike on the Missouri Pacific last spring, as told by Professor Taussig, show...