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...point of occupation: H. C. Lodge in Cong. Record, Dec. 30, 1895, p. 360.- (b) England had refused to arbitrate.- (2) It is in conformity with public opinion.- (a) It has unqualified support of the Senate and House of Representatives.- (b) English public opinion now generally approves it.- (x) As seen in the London Shipping World, London Chronicle, Pall Mall Gazette, St. James Gazette.- (y) Speeches at the opening of Parliament, of Sir William Harcourt and others: Daily Papers...
...would offer.- (d) It would strengthen college spirit.- (1) It would give students the opportunity of meeting and being influenced by visiting and resident graduates.- (2) It would create and centralize college public opinion.- (3) It would give men an opportunity to meet who otherwise would not do so.- (x) Men who live at a distance from the yard could meet there.- (y) Many men who at present feel that they would be benefited by acquaintance with men of different stamp and who now have no common ground upon which to meet would find one there.- (4) It would give...
...University Club would not increase social opportunities of men not in other clubs.- (a) It would not be a social club.- (1) Only small clubs are really social.- (x) Only in such can close friendships be formed.- (2) This club would be too large.- (b) Non-club men would not meet club men.- (1) Two sets of men have nothing in common.- (2) Nothing in new club to induce men to leave the old.- (c) Cliques would exist in the club.- (1) Cliques are indissolubly formed and fostered by preparatory schools and existing clubs...
bound together,- (x) They pursued same courses.- (y) Met together at prayers, etc.- (z) Numbers of class were small.- (2) Members of club would not feel themselves to be a social unit.- (x) They could not become acquainted with all fellow members.- (y) Would not be thrown together as were members of the class...
...benefited, yet the University club would not bring permanent social improvement.- (a) Increased numbers of the University would render it impossible for a University club to perform intended functions.- (1) In ten or twenty years proposed club could extend its advantages to comparatively few men.- (x) It is very probable that University will continue to increase at present rate.- (I) Only check on increase is growth of Western universities.- (II) Such growth is likely to be very slow.- (y) Such a club, ipse facto, must be of somewhat limited facilities.- (2) It would not then prevent social disintegration.- (x...