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...practical value that we desire an elective in law, though the consideration of its theoretical value may overcome the objections of those who think that, in college, time should not be taken from studies which conduce to general culture, and devoted to professional studies. The students who intend to make the law their profession form a large portion of every class, and to these an elective in law would of course be very acceptable; while even to those who intend to follow mercantile pursuits an elementary knowledge of law would be of great, value...
This question was answered negatively by Judge Devens, and more particularly by General Bartlett. These gentlemen sustained their position by announcing the principle, - that it is the spirit not the cause, which makes the glory of fighting; Southerners, they held, would feel no mortification from the erection of the hall, for they would appreciate that those in whose memory it was built, though they fought against the South, did so from principle; the Southerners too, being actuated by a like principle, would deserve and receive like praise; it was not principle, but the mere circumstance of living in Massachusetts...
...class of '33, to write to the Nation, pointing out that it would be but consistent with this principle to put up tablets in Memorial Hall to Harvard graduates who had fallen on the Confederate side also. The Nation replied, though indorsing the ground taken by Judge Devens and General Bartlett, "To put up tablets .... to persons whom its builders do not reverence or love - i.e. the Southern dead - would be a kind of absurdity difficult to describe, if it were not an act of hypocrisy...
...Nation said, it is to a great degree a question of feeling, and we must remember feeling has changed since then. We have gone along with marvellous strides in the last two years. Celebrations like that on the 17th of last June, and speeches like those of General Sherman and Fitzhugh Lee, have materially altered our feelings towards the South. The Nation's language was, therefore, the language of 1874, prompted by feeling rather than by reason, as it confesses. Now, in 1876, feeling as well as reason would sustain it in speaking otherwise...
WRITING for the College papers is often a difficult task, as subjects of general interest are not always to be found. This difficulty is usually surmounted by the discovery of some cause for complaint, or else by the suggestion of some great project which is recommended to the reader as most worthy to be carried...