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...next debate of the Harvard Union will be held in Sever 11 on Tuesday evening, March 13. The question is, "Resolved: That the Principles of German State Socialism are the true Principles for Government." The disputants will be Messrs. McIntosh, '84, Hansen, '85, for the affirmative; Messrs. W. D. Smith, '84, G. Thayer, '85, for the negative...
...number of students in the German universities is now about 25,000. According to reports recently published, most of these students devote themselves to what in German universities is called philosophy, which includes natural history, the languages and the exact sciences. Next to this the heaviest increase has occurred in the number of the law students, the Prussian universities alone having 2558 candidates for the honors of the bench and bar. The only marked decrease has occurred in the number of students devoted to Catholic theology, while Protestant theology attracts very many students, especially when taught by evangelical professors...
...Union for the past half-year, and showed it to be very satisfactory. Officers were elected as follows: President, C. R. Saunders, '84; vice-president, S. M. Hayes, '84: secretary, Barnes, '84; treasurer, W. H. Baldwin, '85. The debate at the next meeting will be on the question of German socialism...
...vaguely intimated that at times he seems to consider his high-backed chair a throne, and the necks of his meek contemporaries adjustable footstools. It is hinted that the executive whip is cracked with a facility that could only have been acquired by a prolonged apprenticeship at a German court. If such is the condition of things in the mysterious precincts of the faculty room it may be that the apprentice is acting on the principle that a little royalty is a dangerous thing and is therefore drinking deep draughts of sovereignty's ambition till an appreciative public shall...
President Robinson of Brown strongly condemns Harvard's elective system. He says emphatically that "he deprecates the tendency in American colleges to become weak imitations of Scotch and German universities...