Word: forum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...classical compromise . . . will train up for the philosophy lecture-room students who have read Plato with delight. It will prepare for the courses in history students who have lived with the Romans elsewhere than in the Forum and on the battlefields of Gaul, who have known other Greeks than Homer's heroes. It will be the gift of a new literature to cherish while life lasts. And it will mean the true socialization of the classics. After all, there is no reason why it should not be as natural for an engineering student to read Sophocles as to read...
...suppose, and which we will bear with, such as the musical notes of the steam pipes, the ceaseless tread of studious feet, or even the frequent invasions of murmuring visitors. But why not take radical steps, by means of new Library legislation, to suppress the alarming spread of the Forum to the precincts of the reading room? A. REEDER...
...second Freshman Forum of the year was held in Smith Halls Common Room last evening at 7.30 o'clock. The question under debate was the subject of National Prohibition. Many important arguments, both pro and con, were advanced, the speakers showing evidence of having thought out the question in advance carefully. However, the discussion was informal and no vote was taken at the end of the debate. From the general sentiment expressed by the speakers the opinion of the meeting seemed about equally divided...
...debate possible subjects for the next Freshman Forum were talked over. Amateur eligibility, summer baseball, compulsory athletics for everyone, and woman suffrage were among the topics mentioned...
...Forum and the special interest clubs offer opportunity for the expression of conviction. Literature, economics, history, and the like train for public life. Why over-emphasize and damn debating? It is excellent as far as it goes, but no further...