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Subjects for Fifth Forensic, Due May 30.

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1. May the Brazilian insurgents be regarded as pirates?

2. Was Commissioner Blount's appointment unconstitutional?

3. Is it just that land should be taxed to the full amount of its annual rental?

4. Are trades-unions justified in restricting the number of persons who shall be allowed to learn a trade?

5. Is it expedient that the powers of state railway commissions should be advisory rather than mandatory?

6. Does a single great bank, such as the Bank of England, offer as great advantages as a democratic banking system, such as the national banking system of the United States?

7. Should the Australian system of registering and evidencing land titles be adopted in the United States?

8. Is the State properly to be regarded as an "Ethical Institution," having for its purpose the moral as well as the physical welfare of its subjects?

9. Does Pessimism, as a doctrine, express any truth of sufficient importance to make this doctrine a valuable element in modern thought?

10. Is the criticism which judges a work of art by the value of the moral ideas conveyed in it legitimate?

11. Can Voltaire as a dramatist be considered a forerunner of the Romantic School?

12. Is the argument in Tract XC of Tracts for the Times conclusive?

13. Is Mr. Gosse right in his theory as to Dryden's indebtedness to earlier poets?

14. Domitian was justified in recalling Agricola from Britain.

15. The Stoic opposition to the Roman emperors was a political mistake.

16. Do the unexplained irregularities in the tides weaken your confidence in the tidal theory?

17. Has the influence of Henrik Ibsen on the drama of Germany and England been beneficial?

18. Is the work of the "Symbolists" in France likely to have any important effect on literature?

19. Is it undesirable that the captain of a university team should be other than an undergraduate?

20. Should Greek letter fraternities be encouraged at Harvard?

Briefs and Forensics will be due March 8, 1894. They will be returned to the students on April 17; those not called for then may be had at the consultation hours on April 18 and 19. Unless properly called for they cannot be rewritten. Rewritten Briefs and Forensics will be due April 24.

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