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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The usual spirit of the legal profession-that of taking advantage of circumstances without regard to justice-is developing very early in the present members of the Law School. For it seems very unjust toward the undergraduate classes for that department of the university to abstain from the races on the Charles until there is an accumulation of old and excellent oarsmen from which to form a crew. Moreover I can not help thinking that this will have a bad effect generally on the interest in rowing taken by undergraduates. The one cause of enthusiasm...
...after-thought allow me to call to their minds the real intention and aim of class races, i. e., to prepare men for the 'varsity. It is fair to suppose that most of these Law School oars have either had their share of the 'varsity or never will have it. Therefore, on this ground their action is useless...
Twenty papers are taken in the Law School reading room...
...Czar. Russia was formerly divided into twelve educational districts over each of which a curator was placed as the representative of the Czar. In these twelve districts certain parts of Russia were not included, notably Finland, having charge of their own education. In 1863 Alexander II greatly improved the school system. In 1835 public education was under ecclesiastical rule but little was accomplished. In 1847 there were 2,500 schools, 27,000 teachers, 125,000 scholars. In 1864 Russia was divided in thirty-five educational divisions and in 1871 there were 60,700 schools and 675,000 scholars. There...
President Porter, of Yale says that "the rush and hurry of our modern activity needs the infusion of a calmer spirit and of steadier thoughts. Its rash and eager generalizations and its exaggerated statements need strong and steady thinkers who were trained in the school of severe definitions and sharp conceptions and steady and clear-eyed good sense. The extravagant oratory, the sensational declamation, the encumbered poetry, the transcendental philosophy, the romantic fiction, the agnostic atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such...