Word: views
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With these points in view, the committee has proceeded with conscious deliberateness to make tentative rules for trial in the spring football practice of the various colleges. The rules, so far as they go, promise well to accomplish the desired results; but, of course, the committee has not yet really given any definite form to the revised game, as the actual phrasing of the rules has not been attempted, and the question of keeping the forward, pass, which is the crux of the whole situation, has not been settled at all. The rules which have been laid down...
...view of this situation, the present endeavor of the Speakers' Club to form a confederation of all College organizations interested in public speaking, appears to be a step in the right direction. Such an association should provide a common forum where undergraduates may discuss the problems constantly arising in University life. It would, moreover, establish a freer, larger, and more pleasant training field from which to draw the University debaters, and, best of all, it would accustom many men to speaking in public...
There are at present ten organizations interested in some form of public speaking. And these debating and political clubs lose in effectiveness because they have many members in common, or else stagnate individually because they represent only an isolated view of some absorbing question. Informal debates among these club members on topics of common interest should enable them to reach conclusions of moment and should prove stimulating to each organization engaged...
There is no question that members of the upper classes should have every opportunity for meeting and getting to know well as many Freshmen as possible. It is also entirely natural that the Freshmen themselves, in view of the size of the present classes, should form groups on the basis of congeniality and community of interests. But is it not necessary that a collection of Freshmen for either of these purposes should bear the reputation, whether deserved or not, that the Polo Club now has. The life of that organization can be terminated easily and quietly by its past members...
...should be the aim of every educational institution to equip a student with all the mental processes it can, and thus permanently develop his breadth of view, rather than fill his mind with minute facts soon to be forgotten...