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...anything but the best and most generous feelings between itself and all other colleges. At its rooms all the principals in the athletic circle can collect and discuss any disputed point by themselves, and can come to a decision before any feelings of doubt or misgiving get abroad to widen the little breach which rivalry always makes between colleges. At the same time it is hoped that the club will have its effects at home in improving the teams and drawing out the best men at hand to belong to them. It will offer an opportunity for captains to talk...
...Easy Chair published an essay by Mr. George William Curtis which defends the late movement to "widen the colleges." He takes the ground that Greek and Latin should be elective as in Harvard. He declares that no one should be completed to "waste his time" in studying those studies for which he has a positive distaste. He claims that the training derived from such studies would be barren in its results. He claims that "a general degree should attest equality of devotion and accomplishment in a curriculum of studies, adjusted with due reference to difficulty and labor." He goes further...
...that whatever action is taken on this subject, after a meeting of the conference committee, a feeling of satisfaction and submission will pervade the college, inasmuch as the student side of the question has been heard and carefully weighed. The expressed intention of the committee from the faculty to widen the field of debate in the meeting of this conference, and to include beside athletics such questions as the marking and examination systems, scholarship and college discipline, presents a still more hopeful prospect. The success of this conference, however, is not by any means assured. It must be kept alive...
...rate of duty. The condition of the laborers in these industries is very bad, and from them have arisen the complaints which have brought into such prominence of late years, the "Labor Question." Foreign immigrants with their pernicious ideas of state help and socialism have helped to widen the breach between laborers and capitalists, and as long as these weak protected industries exist, we can have nothing to expect but dissatisfaction and even threats of violence on the part of the laborers who do not know the real cause of the uncertain returns in the industries in which they...
...workers in this, to them, new field. Indeed, the further that organized societies can extend the system of public lectures for all the students the more fortunate we can consider ourselves. For by means of evening lectures on different subjects students who devote themselves to specialties are enabled to widen their scope of learning and to go forth with a liberal education more truly than they would if these additional advantages were not at hand...