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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?

16. Were the Hebrews in Egypt?

17. Was Chaucer an agnostic?

18. Are the colors of flowers for the purpose of attracting insects?

19. Is it fair to assume that there was, as a rule, no aule in the gynaeconitis of the Athenian city dwelling-house of the fourth and fifth centuries B. C.?

20. Did Henry VIII found the Church of England?

21. Did the introduction of Christianity hasten the fall of the Roman Empire?

22. Should the Charles river be dammed?

23. Were John Adams's suspicions of the Count de Vergennes in the Peace Commission of 1783 justifiable?

24. Is Drake's Bay the site of the anchorage of Sir Thomas Drake on the coast of California in 1579?

*The Third Forensic will be due March 7. It should be left in the box in Sever 10, not later than five o'clock of that day.

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