Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consisted of bringing noted divines of all faiths to speak to audiences made up of all faiths. It is as non-sectarian as a subway train. The club's season begins in October, ends in May. The infrequent churchgoer, the stranded salesman, the sedulously religious, the homebody, the student, the tycoon, the clerk, these people and their like attend...
...season progresses encomia will accrue to the Club's directors, but especially to Clifford Webster Barnes, founder of the club, onetime (1900-1905) Illinois College president, onetime (1918) Red Cross worker, capitalist, altruist, di vine. At Yale, Student Barnes, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., made his first efforts to bring sectarians together. Later, in Paris, Student Barnes assembled a small interdenominational group. Luncheon friends among Chicago business men he persuaded to become trustees of the original Chicago Sunday Evening Club and the beginning and continued existence of the club have been due to his efforts. Looked upon...
...answer to this question may be found in the placing of some of the more important undergraduate positions on a remunerative basis. The major sport managerships, the presidency of the CRIMSON, and the presidency of the Phillips Brooks House, which are generally considered among the foremost student positions, are in fact real jobs, as stringent proportionally in their demands on time and energy of men whose resources are already taxed as an executive place in a corporation. The counter attractions to the part of student leaders that are now making themselves felt will be doubly powerful in a decade. Undergraduates...
There are, however, a few places now held by undergraduates which will continue in their present status. The question is whether, at the end of ten years of development of the student body along its present lines, there will be enough men of the calibre required for some of these positions who will be willing to divide their time and abilities with work which yields no tangible return beyond a dead glory and that old bromide known as "experience...
...objections to such a state of affairs are legion, but the thought is no less valid. The American student is constantly arriving at a larger estimation of his own importance, and there is no reason why this may not expand to the sphere where he will not offer his valuable services except for the return which he would get for a similar effort elsewhere. Very truly yours, R. G. West...