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...whole number of a jury should be competent to render a verdict in all cases." Mr. Boyden, '86, opened the debate for the affirmative. He argued that the present system of juries allows that while the better part of the population is exonerated, the majority are not of exceptional intellect. It is very difficult in criminal cases to impanel a jury who are wholly unpredjudiced, while in civil cases a higher order of men are required than we get at present. He cited the cause of the late Cincinnati riot as an argument in favor of abolishing the present system...
Deny the facts altogether, I think, he hardly can. He can hardly deny, that when we set ourselves to enumerate the powers which go to the building up of human life, and say that they are the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners-he can hardly deny that this scheme, though drawn in rough and plain lines and not pretending to scientific exactness, does yet give a fairly true representation of the matter. Human nature is built up by these powers; we have the need...
...Hawaiians excel in mathematics, but are hardly up to the average American intellect in other branches. They are particularly slow in acquiring foreign tongues, the English language, for instance, being almost too difficult for them. A little more than a hundred years ago, when these islands were discovered by Captain Cook, the inhabitants were sunk in degradation and superstition. A wonderful change has come over them since then, and may we not say that it is due to the influence of education...
President Robinson of Brown University, at the alumni dinner in Boston last Wednesday evening, said: "Education has a two-fold purpose, first discipline and then the acquirement of knowledge. The first of these is the chief aim of academic training; not only discipline of intellect, but also discipline of all powers of man. Now, the discipline of all these powers is to be done by government, by the recognition that in colleges there are laws and laws are to be obeyed. So long as I remain where I am I propose that students shall cultivate habits of regularity and attention...
...without an increase of manly physical vigor. He should graduate, proud of his physique as well as of his mental attainments. His future success depends upon both these factors, and only narrowness of mind or of training is shown in the neglect of either. Whoever thinks to magnify his intellect by neglecting or belittling his body, is as wise as he who expects fruit without vines...