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English C.

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The topics for the second forensic in English C are as follows:

1. Can Turkish Mohammedanism be regenerated?

2. Is Thucydides's view of Pericles as a statesman just?

3. Did the Emperor or the Pope gain more at Canossa?

4. Did Roman civilization influence Angolo-Saxon institutions?

5. Was Franklin's plan of union in 1754 impracticable?

6. Was the judgement against the schooner Sayward, by the Alaska Territorial Court, in accordance with International Law?

7. Is the Monroe Doctrine still an active force in American Diplomacy?

8. Is the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia a step toward independence?

9. Are the present laws of Russia against the Jews justifiable?

10. Is a reform in English spelling desirable?

11. Is the Malthusian doctrine tenable?

12. Is Jean-Jacques Rousseau the father of cotemporaneous Socialism?

13. Was Pope a poet?

14. Was the establishment of the Academic francaise a benefit to French letters?

15. Can there be a science of literary criticism?

16. Is Mr. Ruskin's assertion correct, that "All lovely art is rooted in virtue, so it bears fruit of virtue, and is didactic in its own nature?"

17. Is the realism of modern art of a kind that is likely to be favorable to the finest artistic developments?

18. Have our wishes a legitimate share in the determination of our philosphical beliefs?

19. Are acquired characteristics transmitted?

20. Are we justified in supposing that continental glaciers rest throughout the greater portion of their area, on a stratum of water kept in a liquid condition by the pressure of the superincumbent ice?

Abundant references for the most of these topics are given on lists posted in Sever and University.

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