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Political Economy I will begin to review Mill's Political Economy on Friday...
...next issue of the CRIMSON will be on Wednesday, April 14th. We wish, in bidding our readers farewell on this short recess, to extend to them the customary gratulations for a recess. The mill pauses. The grist no longer is ground. Silence is with the visitor as he gazes at our youthful and ardent Cambridge cousin doing his best to kill the sprouting grass...
...recent discussion of the best method to adopt, in the improvement of style in writing revives the subject of college reading. A well read college man is a rarety; almost an anomily. It is true that we cannot all with Mill read Thucydides in the cradle, nor do we care to read Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that...
...past society and the present generation of Harvard men must be contented with their unfair opportunities and look forward with satisfaction to the higher development of the coming generation. Harvard's radical move must gradually elevate the schools, but only very gradually can this be done, for, according to Mill "reform even of governments and churches is not so slow as that of schools." - The only means to this end is to increase the difficulties for admission from year to year, and let us hope that President Eliot and his colleagues may support their new system in this radical...
...authors at most can be studied during the year. We have absolutely no opportunity as far as I know to get instruction in the works of such authors as Spencer, Bunyan, Campbell, Congreve, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Herrick, Johnson, "Junius," Keats, Landor, Lovelace, Macaulay, Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn something about the general...