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...rumored that on the morning of Washington's Birthday two Farmington girls walked through the crowd of students gathered about the fence on a wager. - Yale News. We never saw any students gathered about a fence on a wager. From the text we are unable to judge whether the girls, or the students, or the fence were "on a wager." - Exonian...
...should like to call attention to a communication on another page, in which the writer points to the need of establishing a school of Political Science at Washington. The matter is interesting not only to those who for themselves wish to get a practical knowledge of political and economic topics but for those who are anxious to see the civil service of our country bettered. It is likely that no civil service laws will be wholly effectual in getting good work out of our public officers, until these men are fully fitted for their duties by a course of training...
...Nation for February 4, a very suggestive letter by Mr. F. A. Carpenter, '85. The subject was a comparison of the so-called schools of political science in this country with the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques at Paris. He advocated the establishment of a school at Washington, similar to the Ecole Libre; and he showed why the existing schools in this country could not take the place of the proposed one. "Such a school" he says, "ought to be situated at the national capital, where is the center of administration for all the higher grades of service, in order...
...find that there are many important topics which it does not touch, for example, there is no instruction as to the duties of the consular service. Such instruction could best be given by one who had been in this service, and this person could most easily be found at Washington. There is another very important omission from the Columbia school curriculum - Comparative Commercial Law and Commercial Treaties...
There is, moreover, one great advantage to be gained by the establishment of a good school of political science at Washington, which Mr. Carpenter has not mentioned, that is the better training of our very highest officials. For from the time that Jackson laid down the principles of international law during the Seminole War, until the time that Blaine in his South American policy developed a new and startling theory of diplomacy, our Presidents and Secretaries of State have been guilty of the most egregious blunders in their dealings with other countries...