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...meeting of the Republican Club last night it was announced that Congressman Samuel W. McCall of this district had been secured to give a general political address in Sanders Theatre, probably on Wednesday evening, April 9. The address will be non-partisan, and much along the lines followed by Mr. Bryan in his recent lecture here. The subjects treated will be the money question, protection and imperialism...
...schools which was begun some weeks ago. It has been thought that the undergraduates, to whom the former circular was sent, might be somewhat biased by a mistaken sense of loyalty to a system to which the college is thoroughly committed, and that their replies might therefore be somewhat partisan. Furthermore, thought all replies are considered confidential, it is thought that some men will not be willing to state frankly the reasons which governed their choice. The graduates, by virtue of their maturity and experience, should be able to estimate the influence of the elective system on their own educational...
...cause of honesty, and without partisan motives, we wish to protest against the flagrant misrepresentation by the Harvard Democrat in its issue of last Saturday, October 20, of President Eliot's article in the Outlook of the same date. Courtesy requires that we cast no reflections on the literary and journalistic morality of the editors of the Democrat...
...administration and legislation in the United States worthy of the character and intelligence of their people; and that not only the statutory lessons of history will be presented, but that the most appropriate and effective means of practical wisdom in our day will be considered for preventing corruption and partisan despotism in politics and government; and for inducing and enabling the most worthy citizens fairly to exercise a controlling power in the republic. It seems to me that these lessons--and especially such as may be drawn from the history of the ancient Italian and Dutch republics, and from that...
...most important suggestion which the President makes is that of having two occasions during the year, instead of one for the conferring of degrees. He does not appear as a partisan of such a change, but notes those tendencies of the Harvard system which would make it appear a consistent development. Formerly, a specified length of residence was the most important qualification for the degree; now it is the passing of examinations on a definite number of courses or half-courses. Provided that the curriculum is so arranged as to allow considerable freedom of choice among half-courses...