TOPICS FOR THIRD FORENSIC.*

1. Did Fletcher write the scenes which depict the ends of Cardinal Wolsey and of Queen Katharine? [See Leopold Shakespeare: Introduction.]

2. Was Falstaff originally intended to caricature the Puritans, in the person of Oldcastle? [See J. 0. Halliwell: On the Character of Falstaff. Bankside Shakespeare: First part of Hen. 4.]

3 Is the Gothenburg plan for solving the liquor problem practicable in Mass.? [See J. G. Brooks: Beauty and Socialism, in Forum, December, 1892.]

4. Satire like that of Juvenal has small practical value in the improvement of human life.

5. All aqueous solutions conducting electricity contain dissociated compounds.

6. Has the Darwinian hypothesis been to any extent weakened by recent observations and discussions?

7. How far does the beauty of organic forms qualify the theory of the survival of the fittest?

8. The glacial sand plains about Boston were deposited beneath the level of the sea, at a time of submergence of the land.

9. Byron had "the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects-the excellence of sincerity and strength." [Quoted from Swinburne's Essays and Studies, p- 239 ]

10. Scott's poems contain more of the Homeric or epic element than other poems in the English language." [Quoted from Principal Shairp's: The Homeric Spirit in Scott. Aspects of Poetry, p, 324. Contra, See Matthew Arnold's lectures on Homer (passion) in Essays in Criticism.]

11. That the Teutonic capacity for personal loyalty has hindered more than it has forwarded the development of national life.

12. Was Philip the First's treatment of the Templars justifiable?

13. Does Zola's La Debacle fulfil the definition of a realistic novel?

14. Did Dante study at Oxford? [References: Gladstone, 19th Century, July, 1892. Plumptre, Contemporary Review, 1886(?) Moore, Dante and his early Biographers. sub Giovanni da Senavalle.]

15 The execution of Agrippa Postumus was probably ordered by Livia, and not by Tiberius. [See Tac. Ann. i. 6.]

16. The Hebrew prophets were the creators of practical menotheism for the world.

17. Does socialism tend to abridge human liberty and to check spontaneity?

18. The complex organism of the human ear is fully developed at the time of birth. Can variation or natural selection account for this combination of structures?

19. The second part of Faust is not a solution of the problems raised in the first part.

20. No blame attaches to Bacon for any part of his behavior towards the Earl of Essex.

21. The policy of Moritz of Saxony was justified by political necessity.

22. The Imperial party gained the day at Canossa.

23. The southward movement of the Germanic peoples was caused by economic condition.

24. Is it advisable to hypnotize healthy persons for the purpose of psychological experiment?

25. Are representations of memory and imagination identical in principle with the presentations of perception?

* The Third Forensic will be due March 8.

Hereafter all forensics not called for at the lecture hours when they are returned to the students, can be had only by application to Mr. Baker, 20 Lowell St. For two days they may be claimed there; after that time no forensics will be returned. The marks of students who do not call for and properly return their forensics will be lowered.

Students who take topics for which some references are given are reminded that they must not depend solely on such references in writing their forensics.