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...such extent as to limit distinctly the field for an active discussion group such as the Liberal Club. But this very situation, with the influence which it gives the instructor in moulding opinion on current subjects, makes all the more important the existence of some sort of a forum where further discussion can take place voluntarily and spontaneously...
...letter printed elsewhere on this page puts forth a case for maintaining a forum where undergraduates may discuss current political, sociological, and economic problems. There can be little quarrel with the main argument of the correspondent, that there would be value in a communal meeting point at Harvard for all students with more than a passive interest in current events and their underlying causes and ultimate effects...
...question as to the best means of providing this outlet for the transfer of ideas, however, is puzzling and perhaps beyond solution. It has been quite obvious that the Liberal Club of the past few years has fallen far short of a perfect forum. Its members formed just as bigoted a clique of undergraduates as the hidebound conservatives or the extreme radicals, with whose tenets the Liberal Club so often disagreed. Even more of a failure has been the Harvard Socialist Club, or whatever name it seeks to masquerade under this week...
...meet, debate, and arrive at their several solutions for the problems of the world. Nothing could be more healthy, more stimulating, or more worthwhile. Unfortunately the difficulties confronting such a Utopian organization are tremendous. The various groups do not want to meet each other regularly. Support of the forum by one clique would immediately give it a touch of the plague in the eyes of the other sects...
...preserve peace by a proper balance of military strength, there is being made at New Haven an attempt to bring peace by a student discussion of international problems. The New England Colleges' League of Nations Model Assembly which will be held on April 25-27 will discuss in open forum the problems which are hindering amity among nations...