Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first business meeting of the class of 1919 will be held in the Smith Halls Common Room this evening at 7 o'clock. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss class matters, to organize the class, and to elect committees to take charge of the cheering...
...conversation at Memorial Hall is in a degenerate state. It is confined entirely to petty, heckling trivialities. No effort is made to discuss a subject intelligently or arrive at a logical conclusion on any question of the day. One thousand men are each wasting three hours a day in intellectual dejection which might profitably be spent in cultivating intelligent thought...
...mind to its earlier and truer type is a demand of humanity, and the real issue of the present war. I have no doubt that most of the persons who hold this view hold it in all seriousness and candor. It therefore seems to me eminently worth while to discuss it with equal seriousness and candor, to examine the foundations on which it rests, to sift what is true and authentic in it from what is specious and sophisticated, and thus to find out what the real relation is between contemporary Germany and the Germany of a hundred years...
...clock in the evening comes the most attractive session of the day, namely, the life work address on Round Top, a beautiful hill overlooking the Connecticut river. After this each college has its own delegation meeting to discuss the problems of its own institution. This is often done around a camp fire...
...view of the extensive discussion among the undergraduates on the question of serving liquor at class functions, the matter was considered by the Council. Proposals were made to it by undergraduates to the effect that the question be put to a vote according to classes every year; this proposal was to take effect through a constitutional amendment to the class constitutions. After due consideration, it was decided that the class constitutions already provided adequate means for dealing with this question. Special meetings of the class can be called by a petition to the president signed by 25 members...