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...large upper-class debating club. Such clubs in the past have had a strong and active membership in the University, because of the exceptional opportunities which they offered for the intelligent discussion of questions not only of vital public importance, but also the more intimate problems of college life. In other colleges this training forms an important part of undergraduate activity and there is no reason why the large number of men at Harvard who desire to secure it should be denied the opportunity for lack of such a club. Our own traditions alone are enough to show that debating...
President Emeritus Eliot will leave Cambridge today for Philadelphia, where he will speak this evening at a meeting of the Contemporary Club on "Adverse Tendencies in University Life." While in Philadelphia he will be the guest of Dr. W.W. Keen. Tomorrow he wll go directly to Charlottesville, Virginia, and on Wednesday will begin a series of three lectures at the University of Virginia on the general subject, "The Struggle between Collectivism and Individualism in a Democracy." On three successive days he will consider this subject from the separate standpoints of Industries, Education and Social Life, and Government. At the University...
...MORNING PRAYER. Rev. H. S. Nash, D.D. Subject: Faith as the secret of defensive and offensive power in life. Appleton Chapel...
...MORNING PRAYER. Rev. H. S. Nash, D.D. Subject: Faith as the secret of defensive and offensive power in life. Appleton Chapel...
...pursued in graduate departments of American universities has shown a general tendency to absorb a part of the student's time in college by dictating certain courses which must be passed before the more advanced work of the professional schools can be taken up. Undoubtedly students whose college life is thus narrowed by early specialization lose some of the broadening influence which it is the function of the college to impart. Carried to its extreme this demand by scientific schools for students who are at entrance already well grounded in their special subjects might defeat altogether the object of college...