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...regular athletic events which constitute an important feature of the Conference, a part of the afternoon of each day will be devoted to mass games and recreative contests which have been used in the army and which are adapted to boys' clubs and general community service. The aim will be to have every member of the Conference participate, and to further train such of the delegates as desire it, in the use of recreation in social service work and other walks of life...
...Freshmen, which has secured the approval of the Faculty and awaits the action of the Board of Governors, was announced in full yesterday. The plan was drafted by Professors R. B. Merriman '96, R. I. Lee '02 and C. N. Greenough '98 of the Athletic Committee. It does not aim to supplant organized athletics but to supplement them by furnishing to those who cannot find places on the regular Freshman or dormitory teams alternative opportunities for regular exercise and instruction in recreative sports. The normal time which each member of the compulsory athletic class would have to devote to exercise...
...then, we are to carry on the ideals of American democracy, this paternalistic movement throughout the country must be halted. We must aim, as we have been aiming, only with ever increasing vigor, to raise the average mental power of the people through better education-- in the broadest sense of the word. Such a program can best be carried out through the colleges. Indeed a certain amount of compulsion is often an absolute necessity in our American universities. This does not mean at all that they should increase compulsion in order to force down the national lever against...
Paternalistic government is not yet an accomplished fact. Our aim should be to attack it at the roots before compulsion can attain a lasting foothold in the country...
Plans for the Legion as outlined show that it is to be essentially democratic and non-partisan. It must not become a second Grand Army of the Republic, interested only in politics and old soldiers' rights. The real aim must be constructive; it must perpetuate a purpose which will grow even after the men who fought in the Great War are dead. We must not allow the great moral principles for which America went into the war, and which have not received their due recognition at the peace conference, to be forgotten. And any nation-wide organization which...