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English C.

TOPICS FOR SECOND FORENSIC

1. Should the scheme of the Postmaster-General for the consolidation of post-offices be adopted?

2. Is Taine's Theory of the relation of literature to life tenable?

3. Is Shelley's Prometheus Unbound classic?

4. Was the battle of Bunker Hill an "absurd blunder" from the American point of view?

5. Do the results of the work of the Christian missionaries justify the continuance of that work?

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6. Was AEschylus guilty of impiety?

7. Should Lewis Morris be made poet laureate?

8. Should National Banks be allowed to establish branches?

9. Should the Hungarian "Zone" system be adopted by the railroads of the United States?

10. Is the proposed University Club practicable?

11. Can the Orient accept occidental christianity?

12. Is the Art of Fiction of Henry James an adequate exposition of the views of the Realists?

13. Was the change of religion of Henry IV. of France justifiable?

14. Were the Salem witches guiltless?

15. Should the Indian schools in the East be discontinued and the money now expended on them be given to the Reservation schools?

16. Did the temporal power aid or hinder the real advancement of the papal interests?

17. Was the conduct of Lafayette in the French Revolution marked by political wisdom?

18. Was Aristophanes severe in his opposition to Socrates?

19. Is the Midsummer Night's Dream probably a rewriting of earlier plays of Shakspeare?

20. Did the Jews get their doctrine of immortality wholly or in part from the Greeks?

The brief for the Second Forensic will be due December 21. It will be returned to the student January 9. The Second Forensic will be due January 16.

Students are urged to find subjects for their forensics in courses they have taken or are taking, and to submit these subjects for approval to an instructor in English C.

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