Word: students
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decide what his life work is going to be and to map out his career in college accordingly. Naturally it was not the intention of those who planned this "reformation" to establish such a contradiction but the result as the system now stands can hardly be otherwise. A young student will either make up his mind thoughtlessly and regret it later or else he will be entirely dominated by those who are appointed to guide him in his choice. The benefits from a "humanitarian" education to assist one in deciding upon ones career will be entirely eliminated. It will...
...movement at Yale to regulate the number of undergraduate activities in which a student may participate indicates that those responsible for the idea had no faith in the adage "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink." Furthermore, the ruling is quite in keeping with the spirit of the times, when apparently the entire nation has gone quite mad on the subject of regulating anything and everything. National Prohibition has passed; various states are trying to introduce into their legislatures bills to prohibit the smoking of cigarettes; the Postal Telegraph Company has been almost regulated...
...content with reforming the curriculum, they must needs reform the extra-curriculum activities at Yale. And this is mainly the work of the students themselves. But in such an atmosphere of reform it would hardly be reasonable to suppose that even the irresponsible undergraduate could escape the fever. It is worse than a revivalist camp meeting! The paramount idea in this reform is, of course, that provided men do not give as much time to outside activities, they will devote more time to their studies. By preventing a man from doing more than a certain amount of athletics, writing, managing...
...curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave and work over their extra-curriculum activities? Because they make a direct appeal to ambition and pride. The thought that they may derive great good from these activities does not generally enter a student's head until long after he has graduated from college. Every undergraduate activity that is worth while has to be bought at the price of a long and strenuous competition. This competition is what lifts these activities from the level of social amusements to training of the highest order...
This evening from 7 to 7.45 a meeting will be held in the Randolph Breakfast Room under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association, to discuss plans for the annual Student Conference at Northfield next June. R. E. Gross '19 will preside and will tell of the work that is done there and outline the daily events that will take place. W. P. Whitehouse '17, 1L., will speak briefly on his personal experiences at Northfield. All members of the University are invited to the meeting...