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...article in the last volume of the Magenta, entitled "A Political Institution," and some information which appeared in the same paper a few weeks ago about the Oxford and Cambridge Unions, have suggested the hope that Harvard will soon boast of a club, open to the whole College, for the discussion of political questions. I have tried to show that it would be an advantage, since it would bring together men of different conditions and opinions, and would offer a new field for intellectual development. In addition, it would be a great advantage to the country to have a hundred...
...river, nothing very noteworthy has occurred during the past week. The same number of enthusiasts nightly crowd the boat-house piazza, with open eyes and watches, trying, if possible, to detect the superiority of one crew over another; while the same earnest discussions go on in Style vs. Muscle...
...desirableness of an elective in the New Philosophy which has been discussed through the columns both of the Magenta and the Advocate - yet discussed at much less length than the interest felt by upper-classmen demands - will not be overlooked, we hope, in arranging the philosophical courses open to us next year. It is not for us to discuss here the soundness of any system of Philosophy; but we wish to point out one or two arguments in favor of an elective in the New Philosophy which appear to us convincing. Assuming that it is not philosophy, but the power...
...paper, in fact, appears to have been constructed on the hypothesis that the entire time of the student has been devoted, like that of the tutor, to the contemplation of a single subject. In the years when the elective system is open to the student, such a supposition is not unwarrantable; but the studies of the Freshman year are arranged, if we mistake not, with the purpose of giving the scholar a taste of many branches of study, in order that he may choose his future course with more certainty...
These courses are parallel. It is proposed to unite them next year, and to institute an advanced course in the same subject, to be conducted in the same general way. Whether there is at this moment open to undergraduates a course in which Constitutional Law is critically studied we are unable to say. If there be none, it is to be hoped that one will soon be supplied...