Word: currents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...curriculum can make only partial response; courses may extend further into the present; some may treat of the most recent developments of society; but still there remains a demand for closer connection with the outside world. We are inevitably condemned, for four years, to be onlookers, watching the current of events, but observations may be made constant and more intelligent...
...opportunity afforded by the Speakers' Club of discussing and gaining intimate knowledge of the issues of today is in line with this modernist movement. And the project begins auspiciously with an address by Professor Taft, who has not only been in the current of things but has guided its trend. He comes to plead the necessity of the increase of civic interest among students. The authority of so eminent a jurist, if not the eagerness of undergraduates, should give him a numerous and well-disposed audience...
Faculty Members on Current Topics...
...meetings, open to all members of the College, to increase interest in the economic, political, and sociological problems of the day. At each of these meetings some member of the Faculty, whose work has brought him into contact with the subject for discussion, will give a review of the current events touching on it. There will follow a general informal discussion, during which the reviewer of the evening will answer any questions related to the subject. This plan has met with the approval of the Faculty, which will give it their co-operation...
...organization meeting of the Undergraduates' Political Science Club will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor W. B. Munroe will speak. All undergraduates who are interested in current problems of government are invited to attend the opening meeting and enroll in the club...