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...publications particularly considered, have not been united in past years, even though many attempts have been made, because of disagreement over technicalities and desire to continue the individual traditions. The Forum believed that while the functions of the Illustrated differ from those of the other magazines, personal differences and trivial points in regard to the make-up of a general-literary publication could be over-looked in a wide-spread movement to relieve of their present burden the advertisers and subscribers. The result of this discussion was a resolution asking the publication committee of the Student Council, composed...
...should go on to college. But 90 per cent of the private school boys go to college as a matter of course, whether they are intellectually negligible or not. All they need is an allowance and a passing mark in the entrance examinations. And so, serious and trivial, stupid and bright, they all herd in together. Of course they will not stand as high in scholarship as the high school boys. That foregone conclusion, however, is yearly rediscovered and posted up before the gaze of a good-natured and undiscerning public...
Anybody who went to the mass meeting last night must have gone away impressed with the fact that there is a "right way" to sing and a "wrong way." The difference may not seem great, and the points that Hancock, the leader, brought out may appear trivial, but they are responsible for the entire difference between the effective and stimulating singing of our opponents and our own. The remedy is simple. First of all, everybody must know the words of the old songs and of such new ones as may be selected. Then the way is open for Hancock...
...remark that, contrary to the apparent implications of the verse, the Pope is believed by Catholics to be neither impeccable as a man, nor necessarily and in all cases infallible as a priest in giving voice to his decisions. Nor is he in the habit of passing judgments on trivial matters or on trivial occasions. There were, not many years since, a group of ill-informed but docile persons who were interested in improving their knowledge concerning the Catholic faith. They wrote down questions upon slips of paper, and placed them in a box in a church, whence they were...
...great world problems of society: socialism, property, foundations of the present regime of society, labor unions, social unrest, and many others. These are the large questions which must be answered sometime, and with these social service can scarcely hope to struggle. Its sphere of labor is among apparently trivial problems. They seem small and workers often wonder whether they are worth while. But it is this small and doubtful work which is really the true service. The small problems which a student worker meets in social service serve the two-fold purpose of helping the world a little and relieving...