Emancipation proclamation 2 2 1 National bank act 1 8 18 Supreme Court decision on the nature of the Union Preamble. 1 8 18 6 2 Amendments 9, 10. Civil Service Act 2 2 2 Interstate Commerce and Anti-Trust Laws 1 8 3 Income tax decision 1 2 3 1 9 4 Reciprocity acts 1 8 11 Annexation of Hawaii 1 7 3 2 2 2 Free coinage 1 8 5 Restriction of Suffrage in South Amendment 14, Section 2. Gold standard act, 1900 1 8 5 Immigration laws 1 8 3 Injunctions in labor disputes 3 2 1 Postal Savings Banks 1 8 7 FOOTNOTE: [6] At this point the comparison between our system and the English cabinet system may be introduced; but this cannot be fully discussed until after the committee system is understood. Reports from the Historical Field WALTER H. CUSHING, Editor. OXFORD SUMMER SCHOOL. The Oxford Summer School has two souls. The student feels the influence of each from the moment he enters the examination halls--nay, as he hurries down High Street, “the glorious High Street,” which Wordsworth’s sonnet has enshrined. In spite of the groups of foreigners talking together in their mother tongues as they too hasten towards the meeting, in spite of the single women who wear English boots, and speak with the English gentlewoman’s mellifluous voice, in spite of tall blonde German students arguing vociferously but good-naturedly, in spite of the whole one thousand three hundred men and women, who are gathering together for another renewed quickening in modern thought along educational lines, one feels a throng of ghosts pressing in upon him--ghosts of memories which surge as really as does the crowd itself. One feels the spirit of To-day and To-morrow taking hold of him and the spirit of Yesterday whispering in his ears. One should be Janus-faced in Oxford, for the soul of the Past and the soul of Now beckon each in its own way. One cannot turn a corner of the high walls, or pass through a gateway, or wander through a cloister, without feeling the ineffable beauty of the past, the intangible glory of the days of Wolsey and Cranmer and Cromwell and Reginald Pole, or the later gorgeousness of Charles I and the army of Royalists who held high carnival here before their downfall. Men who have made modern thought possible, poets, essayists, historians, scientists, one touches the