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...University, at Columbia, and at Johns Hopkins. If one has time to read at length in the original Greek the Republic of Plato in Greek, and can take Philosophy 5, in which, among other things, Locke's theories of government are expounded, one can gain some knowledge of this subject, but only to a narrow extent and at a disproportionate outlay of time and labor. A pressing need at Harvard, therefore, is that a special course should be given by either the department of Philosophy or of the Political Sciences, which shall present a critical and historical exposition...
...Sargent will deliver a free lecture before the Boston Young Men Christian Union on Bovlston street, Boston, on "The Evils of the Professional Tendency of Amateur Athletics." This will afford a good opportunity of hearing what one of our athletic committee has to say on a much discussed subject. The lecture was prepared before the recent foot ball imbroglio...
...lecture under the auspices of the Historical Society, will be given in Sanders Theatre next Monday. Dec. 15, at 7.45 P. M., by Mr. Edmund N. Gosse of Cambridge University, England. Subject: "Thomas Gray;" with the reading of certain poems by Gray, as yet unpublished, which Mr. Gosse recently had the good fortune to discover while preparing his forthcoming edition of Gray's works for the press. The public are invited to attend. It is hoped that the reputation of Mr. Gosse as one of the most scholarly of English critics and as an author and poet, as well...
...Thus were it not for such considerations, we understand that it might be possible (as was proposed last year), for the Historical Society to secure the delivery of a course of lectures upon the Civil War from the Southern point of view, complementing the valuable series on the same subject given last winter. Instead of one lecture from Mr. Gosse, secured by the enterprise of this Society, if the university were able to undertake such matters, it might supplement its regular instruction in English literature by a more extended course by the same distinguished critic and scholar. Or again, Mathew...
There will be a meeting of the Harvard Union, Thursday, December 18, in Sever 11, at 7.30 P. M. Question: "Was the enfranchisement of the negro as accomplished by the fifteenth amendment a mistake?" Reserved books upon this subject will be found in the library reading room, on the shelves at the foot of the stairs leading to the gallery...