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Honorable William Caleb Loring '72, former Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, will give the first of a series of eight lectures on the "Practice of the Law" in Langdell Center at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Judge Loring will take as his topic this afternoon the rather general subject of "What the Practice of Law Involves" going on in later lectures to more specific treatment of the main question...
...from different denominations in which, after graduation, they render acceptable service as ministers. No teacher in the School ever thinks of harmonizing his instruction with that of his colleagues. When inquiry is made, as it not infrequently is, what the Harvard Divinity School teaches on this or that particular topic, the Dean can only reply that the inquirer must consult the individual members of the Faculty for there is no uniformity of doctrine in the School. A student hears conflicting views and must make up his own mind. While this principle of undenominational theological training has the great advantage...
...much as possible of the outside reading, a man can scarcely fail to secure a perspective of the work that may be useful to him later on. But in many cases, this work is arranged in a manner tending to destroy his appetite for additional learning in the topic under consideration and he is only too glad to conclude his experiments in that department...
Particularly is this true of half courses such as Fine Arts 1c, where a second half course naturally fellows to complete a study of the subject. Instead of creating a desire to pursue a topic, which in itself may be one of the most engaging and valuable the college offers, the over abundance of minutiae often is too great a burden for the average student and he shrinks from a continuance of such a demand upon his memory in the next term. A so-called introductory course that leaves behind it a group of disappointed students who are wary...
...axioms of the professional magazine editor is that he cannot rely merely on the material which comes into his office through the mail. He must go deliberately to work to get able writers to write about things which he is sure will interest his readers. Whether the topic of the day--or of the morrow--is the Younger Generation or Spiritualism or the Irish Question, he must get an article on it from the man who is best equipped to deal with it. He must continually suggest subjects to his authors...