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...learn the tricks of the trade and how to be generally useful. This is the main deck." - It was broad and very smooth and clean and sunny - "These old guns are not much use now; they're muzzle loading smooth bores and would stand no chance against a modern iron-clad; those two on the other side are breech loading steel guns, and are used for salutes." Tables were placed between the guns, and at each was a crowd of fine specimens of the American marine, some playing dominoes, some writing letters and some reading. Above from the beams were...
...history, political economy and Roman law, besides some of the more general law school courses. In addition, instruction is offered in physical and political geography, ethnography, philosophy; history of political theories from Plato to Hegel, bibliography of the political sciences, political history of the state of New York, modern Roman law, comparative constitutional law of the several commonwealths of the American Union, Latin-American diplomacy, international private law, comparative administrative law of the principal states of Europe and of the United States, and comparative administrative law of the several commonwealths of the American Union...
Quite a large audience assembled in Sever 6 last evening, to listen to the reading of Mr. Dana's dissertation. To appreciate Emerson's position in the world of modern thought, it is necessary to study the philosophical attitude of his contemporaries. The nineteenth century is characterized by pessimism, and it is chiefly through the abandonment of faith in the revelation of the bible, that such men as Voltaire, Byron, Tennyson, Swinburne, Goethe and DeMusset, were lead into this line of thought. Poets are quoted as examples, for more than all other men they give expression to the thought...
...study of modern philosophy will be begun in Philosophy I at the next lecture...
...eminence on "traditions." In how strong a position Yale is at present the readers of current comment know, with alumni on every hand crying for a new president and a new curriculum, for an abandonment of those antiquated methods which have left Yale far in the rear of these modern times...