Word: topics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Under "Topics of the Day," the Advocate discusses "The Removal of Athletes from Probation." and "Ungentlemanliness in Memorial." What the Advocate has to say about the former topic is well said and the concluding paragraph strikes such an admirable key-note to the whole that we cannot forbear to quote: "Of course, it is to be expected that the outside world will misinterpret and misrepresent this action (the removal of Corbett, Mackie and Waters from probation). However, our college has grown steadily in the face of such attacks, and every year adds to its triumphs as a leader...
...most interesting things in the number is a fragment entitled "The Athletic Question Twenty five Years Ago," in which is printed a characteristic letter, or rather note, by James Russell Lowell on a base ball topic...
...Professor James in Upper Dane at noon today. The lecture is open to all members of the University, and forms the first of a series which promises to be most interesting. Professor James is one of our most entertaining and instructive lecturers on any subject, and on his special topic of psychology he has no equal in America. The college should take full advantage of the opportunity now given to hear...
...legal rules and doctrines are based and, by so instructing him, that he will view law as a system of principle, not as a mere aggregation of cases. To accomplish this, the student commits to memory from day to day suitable portions of a treatise upon some particular legal topic written by an expert on the subject. The professor then seeks, from his own experience and learning, to explain whatever difficulties may have been encountered in the study of the treatise. In place of this method the Columbia faculty has introduced a system which resembles more closely that...
...only the expression of his own ability, but representitive also of the position the ablest and most patriotic men of the country are taking on the great problem of our generation, purity and cleanliness in politics. His subject will be on the Ethics of Political Service, a topic on which he can draw much from his personal experience since he has always practiced his preaching that the scholar and gentleman should always take active part in politics. No member of the University should miss the opportunity of hearing Dr. Everett tonight in Sever...