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Beside the lectures, there are also occasionally Seminaren, mostly conducted in Latin, where classical or Biblical authors are explained and read by the students, or where discussions take place, in presence of a professor, on philosophical, historical, or philological subjects, resembling, however, in nothing our debating-societies.
Beside it; or even, if you will, by means of it, and in virtue of it, though that is by no means so certain as is often supposed. We may quit the Ancient Classical concern, and leave it to College-clubs and speculative debating-societies, in these late days. Of the various French Republics that have been tried, or that are still on trial, of these also it is not needful to say any word.
The question is one that may be commended to the attention of those ingenuous young gentlemen, in debating-societies assembled, who have not yet settled whether Brutus, Cassius, & Co. were right in assassinating "the mighty Julius," or whether Mary Stuart was a martyred saint or a martyred sinner, or whether the cold chop to which Cromwell treated Charles I. on a memorable winter-day was either a just or a politic mode of touching for the king's evil.
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