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...have read the arguments of the majority. We admit that the average age of Harvard freshmen is too great, and that men are now unable to get through a professional education until too late in life. We admit that all this is true, but we see no necessity for the change proposed. If men are now able to get better preparation before they enter college than formerly, this is so much gained toward education, and is not a reason for compelling all men to hurry through their college course...
...Philosophy of Evolution," which forms the topic of the present lecture, is in no sense a finished doctrine, nor is it, on its philosophical side, a very elaborate doctrine. It consists of a criticism and formulation of the presuppositions that are characteristic of an age whose interest in outer nature is mainly an historical interest. The thought of the present century differs from that of the Seventeenth Century chiefly in this prominence of the historical study of the world. For the Seventeenth Century the world was the embodiment of eternal laws; it was a mechanical universe, where all was merely...
...December opens with an interesting article on "The Right to Privacy," written by Messrs. Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, jointly, The authors trace the gradual recognition of a legal right to privacy distinct from the right to property, and rapidly becoming of great importance in the age of newspaper intrusion and instantaneous photography. They point out that a right to privacy is recognized by statute in France, and ought to be in America, so that a sure remedy could be secured in case of the violation of a man's privacy beyond the limit to which public duties...
...their action to the batter in a cricket match. They stand up and exhibit their peculiarities till they are bowled out and disappear to make room for the next. Form and plot in these plays are sacrificed to the satire. They are not plays but dramatic satires. The Elizabethan age was suited to this literary form as it abounded in characters who courted conspicuousness...
...American Drama," formerly instructor in the English department has been reprinted from the "History of Middlesex County." As one looks over such an account of the corporate, material and intellectual growth of Harvard as well as of its legends and traditions, one is justified in feeling pride in the age of our University and in its progress since the days when Mr. Nathaniel Eaton and his usher Nathaniel Briscoe comprised the faculty. Such a review shows how indissolubly the college is linked with the names of those who are best known in the history of the Common wealth...