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...November number of the Contemporary Review contains the lecture on "Teaching of English Law at Harvard," which Professor A. V. Dicey delivered last spring upon his return to England. In a most eulogistic manner he analyses the methods used at the Law School, and after showing that the students have been taught to live in a legal atmosphere by means of their clubs and magazine, draws some lessons from the workings which Oxford would do well to follow...
Taking as his text James Russell Lowell's words, "My Life Shall be a Challenge not a Truce," he pointed out in a striking and forcible manner the vast good, men and especially college men can do by the example of steadfast and honorable living. He said it was principally for this purpose that the St. Andrews Brotherhood had been formed, and to this it has owed its great success in a large measure...
...adopted, providing that in case the society should ever be dissolved, its "inalienable" capital, now amounting to over $25,000, should be turned over, to the Corporation as a fund, the income to be used "for the embellishment of the College precints, or otherwise at their discretion in such manner as to contribute to the amenity of student life...
...still fail to charge their opponents and lack dash and aggressiveness. They are indifferent to the gains of opponents and are lamentably weak in following the ball. Low and hard tackling is the exception rather than the rule. The offense has only recently been taken up in a systematic manner and it is consequently still ineffective. The backs run slowly and interfere high and the linemen fail to open holes cleanly and at the proper time. The plays are slow and loose and lack the force which would exist if every man's energy were exerted at the right moment...
...University Debating Club amended its constitution last night in such a manner as to abolish the old organization and create a new society, which is to be composed of men resident at the University who have taken part in intercollegiate debates, including alternates, and the presidents of the four class clubs. The object of the new organization will be almost entirely executive. It purposes to look after the general interests of debating at Harvard, arrange and conduct the intercollegiate debates, and direct the work of the class clubs and interclass debating. The constitution of the society will go into effect...