Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell will preside at a meeting under the auspices of the Council of Federated Clubs to be held in the Assembly Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the plans for the new Student Council. Besides President Lowell, several prominent graduates will speak. The meeting will be open to all interested...
...meeting to be presided over by President Lowell will be held in the Assembly Room of the Union, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Council of Federated Clubs. Its purpose will be to discuss the plans for the new Student Council. Several prominent graduates will speak. It is one of the functions of the Council to hold open meetings of its constituent clubs, to discuss subjects of general interest, and if the subjects are sufficiently important to the University at large, as in the present case, the meetings will be open to all interested...
...given a square deal. And when the President and the Deans have been consulted as to the composition and authority of the new body, and when the necessity of reviving the Council while the machineries of class elections are convenient is self-evident, it hardly behooves a critic to discuss ideal methods of ratification and nomination...
...into communication with the society representing a certain interest, and does not know the proper club, the council will bring the two together. Third, if a question of general significance to the University arises, the council will call together all component clubs, or a number of them, to discuss such an issue in common, thus helping to form and guide undergraduate opinion. It is hoped that questions may be referred from the Faculty or from the Student Council. Fourth, the council will endeavor to keep in close touch with the club situation in the University, to encourage the clubs...
When we know how exhaustively undergraduates discuss the questions of the day, decide the fate of nations, and solve the problems of the universe, it seems strange to us that they should so coyly decline from putting their thoughts on paper, or, at all events, in print. This becoming reticence cheats the College papers, for they receive little or no support from men who are not editors. Surely the papers miss their mark if they do not give some stimulus to thought and offer a medium for undergraduate expression. The columns of all the papers are gaping open...