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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...city." It may seem absurd to undertake the refutation of such purely calumnious assertions, yet it would surely be injurious to Harvard were they suffered to pass unnoticed. Were it not to guard against possible credence on the part of those as entirely ignorant of Harvard life as the writer in the Illustrated American, it would be unnecessary to say that there is no approach to the truth in any statement we find there, save in that which tells that Harvard stands beyond the River Charles, looking at Bunker Hill and Boston...
...also principal editor of the English Law Reports. His earlier work as an author was chiefly in bringing out the principles which underlie the English case law. Of late, in addition, he has devoted himself largely to historical research. It is doubtful if any other contemporary English legal writer is so well known. He was also among the first, and has been one of the most influential, in the effort to reform the system of legal teaching as practiced in the Inns of Court, and has more than once made public acknowledgement of the debt which England owes in this...
...living question, Mr. Thayer gives the history and objects of the different societies and clubs already existing at the college, and shows how they have helped to bring about a social chaos, and this in turn to bring about an athletic chaos. In closing his article the writer says. "Let there be as many small clubs, and as many groups of specialists as are needed to give every individual fair play, already Harvard's student life offers advantages for a great number of diversified tastes, - but now we should organize the club which shall bind all these units together...
...Higher Education in Railway Management," is the title of an article by George Bridge Leighton '88. The writer sets forth clearly and convincingly the need of some institution where railway management may be taught. He shows that there are schools or courses where the would-be lawyer, physician, doctor and engineer may study for their profession, but that by perseverance alone in practical work in one limited deparment can a young man educate himself in the railway profession...
...George P. Baker gives an excellent account of the English play, which was produced here during the past winter, in the article entitled "Revival of Ben Jonson's Epicoene." In concluding his article, the writer dwells on the advantages to be derived from the revival of an interest in Elizabethan drama...