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English C.

TOPICS FOR THIRD FORENSIC.*

1. Are the terms of the recent bond issue favorable to the Government?

2. Should the City of Boston found and maintain a College?

3. Was the position of the railway companies in the Brooklyn strike justifiable?

4. Have the results gained by College Settlements justified their founding?

5. Is vaccination beneficial?

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6. If it were possible, should a reasonable property qualification be required of voters in municipal elections?

7. Is Matthew Arnold right in saying that Gray's poetry was "stunted in quality by reason of the age wherein he lived"?

8. Is Charles Lamb right in saying that "the plays of Shakespeare are less calculated for performance on a stage than those of almost any dramatist whatsoever"? (On the Tragedies of Shakespeare.)

9. Should an endowed theatre be established in Boston?

10. Are hour examinations in Harvard College beneficial?

11. Were the Anglo-Saxon guilds founded on any older institution?

12. Was Congress right in refusing to pay the Beaumarchais claim of one million livres?

13. Should Homer be taught in preparatory schools?

14. Was Ruskin justified in his condemnation of English political economists?

15. Did France in 1526 have a better claim than Spain to the territory now included in the United States?

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