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SENIOR FORENSICS.Third forensic, due on March 19. Subject: 1. Does the history of progress favor utilitarianism? 2. May virtuous acts be defined as those which tend to produce happiness? 3. "You cannot make men moral by Act of Parliament" (comment on this statement). 4. Should district and State boundaries be obliterated or ignored in the election of representatives and senators in the United States? 5. Compare Grant and Lee as military commanders...
...following extract is taken from a comment in the Science Monthly on a conversation between two learned European scholars. Professor Struve said that "this conclusion had been drawn independently by so many differently circumstanced men in the Russian and German-Baltic provinces, from the general impressions which their recollections gave them, that there could be little doubt of its containing much truth-truth, too, of a startling character: the first boys at school disappear at the colleges, and those who are first in the colleges disappear in the world. I am not sure that a similar conclusion would not follow...
...airs." over "country oarsmen," is that, "since eminent lawyers agree that this offence is not a felony, nor even a misdemeanor, sensible people punish such actions by those most potent penalties, indifference and disregard-what common folks call 'a severe letting alone.' " Such remarks as these need but little comment from us. The fact is simply this: that the Spirit of the Times, has made a most unprovoked attack upon both Harvard and Yale, for reasons best known to itself. It must be evident, even to the Spirit of the Times, that it would be utter folly for Harvard...
...entirely informal, and each member of the faculty present should be construed in his remarks as expressing merely his private opinion and not as committing the faculty to any course. As he had lately expressed his views in print in his annual report he would not continue with further comment. Debate then turned upon the question of professionalism in college athletics, on which subject Professors White and Shaler expressed themselves at some length. The faculty desired, it was stated, that Harvard should be on even terms with the colleges with which she competed. There were three courses open...
Professor Shaler says that the brilliant sunsets which have lately occasioned so much comment are undoubtedly caused by the recent eruptions at Java...