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English C.

TOPICS FOR FOURTH FORENSIC.

1. Was Milton influenced by Caedmon in writing "Paradise Lost"?

2. Should the Boylston prizes for declamation be abolished?

3. Which is the better estimate of Boswell-Macaulay's or Carlyle's?

4. Should the sessions of the Massachusetts State Legislature be biennial?

5. Are the recent attacks in the Boston Transcript on vivisection justified?

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6. Should the laws making pilotage compulsory be repealed?

7. Was France or England responsible for the war of 1803?

8. Should New Mexico be admitted as a State?

9. Should Boston Common be kept intact?

10. Should Congress subsidize a Pacific cable?

11. Should the Australian system of registering deeds be generally adopted in this country?

12. Is specie only to be denominated "money"?

13. Should duties be reimposed on wool?

14. Can a rapid accumulation of capital lead to an over-production of commodities?

15. Should the Bulfinch front of the State House be abolished?

16. Should admission to college be by examination or certificate?

17. Is Mme. Bernhardt as successful in Phedre as in the plays of Sardou and Dumas, fils?

18. Should the law permitting the distribution of seeds to the general public by congressmen be repealed?

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

20. Were the Hebrews in Egypt?

The fourth forensic will be due April 10. 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.

Copies of this list may be had at any of the consultation hours this week.

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