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Leagues,--unions,--associations appear to control the destiny of everyone from the wealthiest plumber to the most brow-beaten President. So one is not surprised to find the Liberal Clubs of the world banded together in a Forum for self-defense and effectiveness. Furthermore, their coming "Symposium" is another of the "conferences" which grow more and more popular--where everyone brings forth his grievance and draws comfort from the troubles of the rest...
Still, the "Symposium", like the Intercollegiate and Silver bay conferences, is as Pres. Harding would say "a step in the right direction", and every encouragement should be offered those who have the initiative and courage to try to remedy an unsatisfactory situation. Educational methods are acknowledged to be far from perfect; and any improvements which students can suggest will be received eagerly by everyone, and not least of all by the muchabused faculties...
...Swayze '25 will represent the Liberal Club at the Spring Symposium on "The Student Renaissance", which will be held under the auspices of the Student National Forum in Yonkers, N. Y., tomorrow and Sunday. President Alexander Meiklejohn of Amherst College, Professor J. H. Robinson '87, of the School for Social Research, New York City, and numerous other speakers will present subjects for discussion...
Last week was open season for or lack potshots of at the educational system, or lack of system ? in the United States. College presidents made speches; The New York Times got up a symposium; a federation of women's clubs in Chicago issued local programs; nearly every serious-minded monthly magazine carried signed articles on the general topic; and, by a coincidence, there appeared a letter from President Harding in which he makes some timely remarks on the teaching of history...
Representatives of four political parties of the country expounded the principles of their parties, and their relations to present day problems, in a political symposium under the auspices of the Student Liberal Club, held last night before an audience which field every seat and crowded the standing room in the Living Room of the Union...