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...general history of the country and of the world, together with a knowledge of Common, Constitutional, International Law, Political Economy, Logic, Principles of Criticism, English Literature, and the French and German languages, are given by Whitelaw Reid as the indispensable acquirements of a journalist. While, of course, any student can get all these studies from the curriculum as at present constituted, it would certainly be a great gain for the profession if a course could be established which would give men the same help that the moot courts of the Law School give students in law. While Harvard...
...student who has not received a prayer warning has been personally slighted...
...ever occur to the Overseers what an anomalous appearance this college, in its religious aspect, presents to the world? Under the present regulations the Harvard student is required on week-days to attend a place of Christian worship. Yet on Sunday, the Christian holy-day, he is free to pay to spiritual matters what little attention he may please. The reason underlying this peculiar state of affairs would be difficult to ascertain. Week day religion is not the general custom Most men keep their piety for exclusive use on the first of the week. Nor is week-day religion sanctioned...
...this; every class has one representative, but the majority of jurors are elected by the various chapters of the inter-collegiate fraternities, of which there are a large number at Bowdoin. Society feeling is so strong there that this was thought to be the only way by which the students could be represented. The President of the college officiates as judge at the trials, and passes sentence on the culprit after the jury have rendered a verdict as to his guilt, and as to the grade-of which four are named in the articles of agreement-to which in their...
...college. Its importance is to be shown by the good results it will bring about in furthering the study of dramatic art and the art of expression. It has been shown by Mr. Jones that the study of elocution is one in which the best qualities of a student, refinement and depth of mind, may be well employed. In this way the readings have been both a benefit to the students and credit to the great college under which they were delivered...