Word: students
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opening article is a sharp attack on the practice of working one's way through college; an ordinary "working-student," forced to earn money, is likely, it is said, to sacrifice health, intellectual ideals and social enjoyment; men with uncommon endowments may succeed, the majority must fall. Here undoubtedly is a difficulty; but the writer would have done well to bring out the other side more distinctly-that not a few men work their way without losing the best fruits of college life, and that for some men the necessity of supporting themselves is a wholesome discipline. And what counsel...
...without the same dramatic attractions that draw enormous crowds to the Living Room of the Union during football season; is probably the most important affair of the kind that has been held in many years. The meeting has been called for an undergraduate ratification of the committee's proposed student council. It should be remembered that the plan was drawn up with the greatest care after consultation with prominent members of the Faculty and with the Athletic Committee, and that a committee of men who have been in closest touch with athletic affairs is responsible for the suggestion...
...mass meeting will be held in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock in order to discuss the sanctioning of the plan for the new student council. It is essential that everyone who is interested in the athletic situation be present...
...following is quoted from the first two paragraphs of the constitution of the proposed student council...
...word about the proposed new council. The undergraduate committee took up its work in all earnestness, because it believed that the students had pledged themselves to make good a promise; and because it wanted to prove that curtailment is not a proper remedy for distraction. It wanted to cut deeper, by dealing with the student activities as a whole, in the creation of a sentiment that can never be legislated into existence. It remains only for the College to accept the plan in the same spirit of co-operation in which it was drawn. We are trying to help...