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...Political Economy is at stake, inasmuch as a sufficient number of students is wanting who are willing to pursue the study. The course comprises a comparison of the land tenures of England, Ireiand, France and Germany, with reference specifically to their economic efforts; that is, it embraces the entire subject of peasant proprietorship, farming on a large or small scale, and other interesting matters which directly or indirectly have no small bearing upon the land system of our country. In accordance with the College Regulations at least four students are required to pursue the subject; otherwise...
...general word about elocution may not be out of place in this connection. This year there will be about twenty-five men drawn from the upper classes who will take the regular instruction-a half course-in this subject given by the college. More would like to take up the study, but can not, owing to the limited opportunities offered...
...large part of the class of '84 entered the Law School this year. We venture to assert that out of this number fully one half could not hold the interest of a jury of their intellectual inferiors in a speech on any subject of half an hour's length; and that simply because they are lacking in some or all the requisites to speech-making, of a good voice, good enunciation, and a good presence. Yet, if these men are to become anything but mere office-lawyers they must acquire these things, and acquire them by the hardest sort...
...investigation that President Eliot's theory appears the more practical. President Porter decrees those studies which receive the greatest attention from the students of Harvard. It is true that these studies are not by any means ignored, but they do not receive more attention from President Porter than the subject of outside reading. It is claimed that a college is not to be held responsible for the individual culture attained by its students through their own endeavors. While it is not acknowledged that a liberal education is or can be free from a thorough basis upon the classics...
...very important that every member of the college express his opinion on this subject, and all are strongly urged to come forward and be counted...