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SENIOR FORENSICS.Third forensic, due on Feb. 26, from 2 to 4 P. M., in Sever 1. Subjects: 1. Does the history of progress favor utilitarianism? 2. May virtuous acts be defined as those which tend to produce happiness? 3. "You cannot make men moral by Act of Parliament" (comment on this statement). 4. Should district and State boundaries be obliterated or ignored in the election of representatives and senators in the United States? 5. Compare Grant and Lee as military commanders...
...students, the faculty of Harvard College have adopted a policy directly contrary to the one that has been in force so long and with such good effects,-the policy of non-interference. Their action can be looked at as nothing less than a long step back ward in the progress of Harvard toward the ideal university, and what makes this step more unendurable is its absolute uselessness. We have been yielding gradually to the views of the faculty on this point, and have tacitly been granting the necessity of some regulation of athletics. But, to state the question in plain...
...specialist must be a superficialist." I certainly did not intend to say that a man who does not devote his attention to one subject only, can have no depth of knowledge whatever. There are, of course, minds which are capable of making more progress in various directions than other minds in a single direction, but I think it can hardly be disputed that the same mind will obtain a more superficial knowledge when directed to many diverse subjects than when concentrated upon one only. It was this distinction between two equally intellectual men, employing their power...
...bring to the contests other parties than students, among whom "disagreeable controversies" may arise. The "controversies" to which the preamble refers have led to conferences among the students, which have not been without good results in improved games and manlier characters. Interference on the part of faculties with the progress made in this way, I should regard as unfortunate as well as very unwise...
...elective system by placing a premium upon a superficial education, such as is to be obtained in the prescribed course which most American colleges require. Under the reform which is suggested, the specialist is triumphed over by the superficialist, which is exactly contrary to the tendency of modern progress." May I ask, through your columns, by whom and when this final decision that a man who is not a specialist must be a "superficialist," was arrived...