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...lecture next time in History 18 will cover the work gone over the first half year. Saturday, Mr. Hart will discuss the mid-year examination paper...
...seen, the merits of the plan rest mainly on the question, whether or not the consolidation would insure enough more alumni aid to cover the increase in expenditure, the decrease in individual undergraduate interest, and besides give materially increased help to the important non self-supporting organizations. It seems to the outsider as if this would not be likely to ensure and that more damage than good would come from "bunching" interests that are essentially independent...
...drama, on Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors in play-writing, on the development of English fiction, on English verse in its several kinds and stages, on the English essayists, and many similar subjects, would all be very useful. Or, it might possibly be better to have courses arranged to cover certain periods of time. However matters of detail may be decided, it is certain that there is room for improvement in our department of English Literature...
Nothing brings more forcibly to the mind of the observer the truth of the adage "Necessity is the mother of invention," than a consideration of the petitions sent in to the faculty. They average several dozen a week and cover a multitude of ailments from "cold feet" to incipient consumption. The faculty in its analogous position of liberal thought and conservative action, seems inclined to give these documents the best interpretation possible, and, in so far as they depend upon diplomatic wording, and harrowing statement, they are successful. As to the latter point, it seems curious that, while the faculty...
Mercantile Law at University of Pennsylvania covers the usages and methods of business, the management of property and the administration of trusts and is supplemented by an exposition of the leading principles of the Common Law. The text book is Parson's Laws of Business. Both Columbia and University of Michigan give similar courses. Why the faculty here have not introduced an elective to cover this subject pursued in other colleges, when the beast of Harvard has been always to take the lead in political science, as a matter of deep concern. Of the advantages of such a course...