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...favor making the college a mass of restrictions and regulations. No. But somehow more than one student goes through college without being awakened as far as his intellectual self goes--that bugaboo word "intellectual" again!--but there is no avoiding it. Fundamentally it is all the old problem of contact; because true teaching is what is necessary, and teachers work only through making contact. The resulting sparks usually start something...
Faculty advisors are another point of contact; it is unfortunately true that at present many faculty advisors have been more or less forced into the position, and have not the time to properly discharge its functions. The fault is not theirs. A group of thirty or more younger men, qualified by training and by personality--probably personality first--whose work, at least at particular times of the year, would be to advise--and nothing else,--is an idealistic solution. What would be the balance of such a man's occupation at the University--if any--is a difficult question...
...many professors to devote to their students. It is not strange, therefore, if not a few of those who take the course feel that they have to a certain extent been cheated out of the best which the course has to offer, particularly in the direction of personal contact with their instructors...
...Harvard delegation at Silver Bay in the summer was the third largest at the conference, consisting as it did of over a score of undergraduates. The men who were present were very enthusiastic over the conference, both because of the opportunities of contact with men of not in religious affairs, and because of the friendships formed or ripened there. Those men on the delegation who returned to College in the fall formed a discussion group which has met twice a month throughout the year to study Rauschenbusch's "Social Principles of Jesus." Corliss Lamont '24, chairman of the Silver...
...rely simply on the presentation of the solution as they see it, forgetting the human element. Now, the human element is the big element in public affairs as in most everything else. There are few things in the world after all that we do without coming in contact with other human beings in the doing, and our capacity for gaining results will be greater in proportion as we under stand human nature and use this understanding in bringing about what we think should be done...