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...deficiency of Latin literature to be held accountable? Can it be that there do not present themselves, in Latin literature, works of a nature to be entertaining to a popular audience? Surely no devotee of Latin would acknowledge its narrowness to be of so alarming a character. Would listeners who crowd to hear Sophocles and Homer find no attractions in Lucretius and Virgil? Would those who take a rollicking delight in Aristophanes, fail to respond to Plautus...
...true explanation, - if the matter is, that the Latin instructors, blameless individually, do not pull well together, - then the case is, indeed, lamentable. For it is the community at large, and not the professors, who are to decide whether Greek and Latin are to continue in their present prominent positions as studies: it is the public who are to act as judges; and woe to Latin or Greek, if in her future great struggle for existence, there should be added to her enemies from without, that worse foe than all the rest, - want of harmony among her own pleaders...
ACCORDING to the new Regulations every Theme, Forensic, or written exercise must be presented at the time appointed by the instructor, or no marks will be given for it. It is quite a study to find out from the present notices what the subjects for Themes or Forensics are, what section a man is in, when his Themes or Forensics are to be presented, and when they are to be returned. It seems to us, since a failure to present Themes and Forensics is attended with such serious consequences, that the present method of announcing the dates on which they...
HARVARD COLLEGE has long been reproached, perhaps unjustly, with its narrowness on religious questions; but its bigotry in political questions has never as yet been discussed. Perhaps there has never been a time when a broad knowledge of political and economic subjects was more necessary than the present, and yet in the all-absorbing question of free trade or protection for the United States, the instruction given most certainly not only inclines favorably to one side, but does not even give a fair statement of the other. The question is by no means settled, and it would certainly...
...during the past few years? From the point of view of the writer, there is, undoubtedly, a certain indecision in the action of the authorities; and the Corporation may, perhaps, very soon be called upon to define the position of the College with regard to co-education. For the present, however, we do not think that it can fairly be said that the College is tending towards coeducation, because it does allow women certain privileges which may be withdrawn at pleasure...