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...philosophers out of the students, but to give them a liberal, well-rounded course in the law as a whole; giving a full, extended course of instruction in the several most essential subjects, each topic to be treated as a whole and inductively as far as time will allow, and in addition to this, a course of analytical lectures on some of the most essential secondary subjects, with reference to a good text-book. Such a curriculum, and electives alternate years on Roman Law and International Law, and a summary of the Law, treated as a unit, in connection with...
...fence in the whole field. No objection will then be made to the erection of seats, if they are neatly constructed, or even to a suitable building, if thought desirable. It is reasonable to hope, although we are not authorized to say so, that the Overseers will not allow the whole expense of the new building and seats to be borne by the students. If this hope is realized, we surely shall not lose by the contemplated improvements. On the other hand, we shall gain an attractive-looking field, and a fence to shut out the insidious "muckers," which will...
...form of the referee's decision is indefensible, involving a strained interpretation of Rule XIV., which would make it impossible ever to allow a claim of foul. Practically, however, this is of no account, as the position given to Yale, and the referee's testimony as to the courses of the boats at the moment of the foul, are a clear indication of his opinion as to which boat should bear the blame of the foul. No one can regret more than Harvard that he refused to order the race rowed over, which it was his plain duty...
...that we desire to make the United States one vast garrison like Prussia, or get into the habit of picking international quarrels unnecessarily; but all our experience tells us that a certain amount of preparation is nothing more than prudence, and that it is a poor policy to allow our military knowledge to fall to so low an ebb that a war is rendered longer and more bloody by the inadequate provision to meet...
...Cornell than at any other college in the country; the work of the Harvard Sophomore year being performed in their Freshman, that of the Junior in their Sophomore, while "during the Senior year the range of work performed here and at Harvard and Yale is too immeasurably great to allow of comparison." With what, pray? Perhaps, however, the editor of the Times did not think it worth his while to take advantage of these extraordinary opportunities...