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...next debate in English 6 is on the following subject: Resolved, That a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors, such as that known as the Maine Prohibitory Law, is sound in principle...
...beginning of the term, Professor Child expressed a wish that the section in English might enter upon the study of Chaucer with that zeal which the importance of the subject demands, and that a working body of Chaucer students might ere long grow up in our midst; mentioning at the same time Professor Tyler's large and enthusiastic classes at Michigan University. It is a strange thing that at Harvard, the very seat of New England culture, our own noble literature should be neglected, when Boston University has a Shakspere Club, and Cornell a Browning Society. And therefore we wish...
...students of Chaucer, and there is urgent need of new members in order to enlarge to the utmost its capabilities; and we fail to see why Harvard, already so justly renowned in classics, mathematics, and philology, should look with sluggish indifference upon the great field of early English literature, where "the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few." The glory of Chaucer's poetry will surely not grow dim in future years, nor the sweet music of our morning of song die away. Let all lovers of what is pure and noble in English literature do their best...
...that it is "gratifying" that his "labor of love is now to yield him substantial benefit, and that his histrionic abilities are coming to receive their just recognition." No one more sincerely wishes success to Mr. Riddle than does the Crimson; but in consenting to play oedipus with an English support before mixed audiences, we think he has made a grave mistake. After the accurate presentation last year, this plan is little more than a travesty, not at all to be desired by those of us who are proud of that first success. We think that Mr. Riddle will sometime...
...required work is to be thrown aside (for an attempt to do so is making) without a particle of sound reason for it. When Latin and Greek and Mathematics are ready to quit their claims to the position of required studies, then will it be time for English to withdraw, and not till then; then will it be right, and not till then. The time, indeed, has come for a decisive policy. Half-way measures have been tried and have failed. Therefore the writer thinks that those who have the best interests of our College at heart, who see clearly...