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...great pity that the college is so poor that it cannot afford to found a regular course whose aim should be to train men for journalism. None of the present English composition courses answer this need for special instruction. In effect, their purpose is to give literary finish by means of careful work, and criticism. While this sort of study is of course necessary to gain a power of clear and graceful composition, yet these courses do not afford any chance for rapid off-hand writing. The system of daily theme writing, instituted in one course, is an approach toward...
...said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast is noble; but if he thinks he is fated to be miserable, will that not extinguish his hopes, will that not break his spirit? Certainly, I might answer, and he must have a spirit broken already, who would not rather be sobered by truth than tickled by self-deception. Living is like going to the theatre: if the play is good, it is enjoyed all the more for having been previously read; while if it be known to be poor...
Granting, then, that fatalism does not take away the zest of life let us inquire how much it modifies our notions of right and wrong. It is plain that no possible answer to the problem of freewill can change the experience men have had of what is good for them. Such conduct as has proved useful in the past, cannot but be thought wise for the future. In so far, therefore, as our notion of right and wrong is founded on experience, it would not seem to be at all effected by fatalism; and we have seen that fatalism does...
...prevailing feeling that the very existence of right and wrong is involved in this question; and therefore men approach the subject with their minds already made up, and in doot take the trouble to analyze the problem and see in what sense right and wrong really depend on the answer we give...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:-I was somewhat astonished to read the editorial which appeared in your issue of Wednesday pertaining to Memorial Hall. I deem it my duty to answer it and explain each point...