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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next debate in English 6 is fixed for Thursday, December 5. Subject: Was Sir Philip Francis "Junius"? Members of the College will be admitted...
...second forensic of the first half of the Senior Class is due on the first Tuesday in January. Subject: "Is Conscience Infallible?" References: Hodgson's "Theory of Practice," Grote's "Moral Ideals," Cobbe's "Intuitive Morals," Stewart's "Active and Moral Power," Butler's "Ethical Discourses," "Treatises on Moral Philosophy" (Stewart's, Paley's, Wayland's, Hopkins's Peabody's). The second half of the class hand in their forensic on the second Tuesday in January. Subject: "Does an oath enhance one's obligation to tell the truth or to keep a promise?" References: (affirmative) most of the books named...
...THINK that not a small portion of the Junior Class were surprised at the severe criticism that appeared in the last Advocate upon the subjects given out for the next Junior Forensics. It hardly seems probable that a teacher who has had so much experience in this matter should assign subjects wholly beyond the capacity of his class, or should expect them to write "North American Review articles." The criticism not only is a reflection upon him, but is not sustained by an examination of the subjects. That they are subjects which cannot be written upon without some knowledge...
UNDER the able management of Mr. Winsor, the Library, which formerly was a subject for much needed or needless complaint, deserves little save praise. The changes he has introduced, though sometimes at first disliked, have always proved advantageous, and have shown that he regards the success of the Library as identical with its utility to the students. Still, there are other changes apparently desirable to which we would like to call attention. It seems some-what remarkable that a library which expends $15,000 annually in purchasing books should, nevertheless, oblige students to raise by subscription the $300 needed...
...found a novel subject of complaint, namely, the too close proximity of a certain pigsty to one of the college buildings, and advises the proprietor thereof, if he wishes to continue his stock-raising with security to the stock, to find a more fitting locality for his operations. We believe that the nearness of a pigsty is an absolutely new subject of complaint among the college press, and we hail it as such. The article called "He was from Harvard" is very flat, besides being extremely questionable in point of taste. We hope that the Advocate can survive the severe...