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...Student Friendship Drive--and, at least, someone would have understood why he was contributing. But the Debating Union is content to mangle Mencken or adjudge the capacity for boiled eggs of the average publicity seeker. Perhaps that is their ultimate. One could wish differently for Harvard needs an open forum much more than she needs an Association of Readers of Clinical Notes. To be or not to be--really, the Debating Union should determine the answer...
This event calls to mind the curious reversal of the tariff situation which is taking place in the United States. In the days of Cleveland and Bryan the Middle--Western farmers were vigorous opponents of the large protectionist manufacturers. Now, as the Canadian Forum points out, many manufacturers are becoming free trade advocates while numerous agrarian organizations favor a reasonably high tariff. Particularly do the farmers see the need of duties on agricultural imports which can be produced at a much cheaper rate in Canada, Argentina, and New Zealand. The manufacturers, on the other hand, due to improved, automatic machinery...
...floor of the Debating Union has been open to all members of the University. And in the arguing of each question, the preliminary set speeches have always been short to conform with their function of merely directing subsequent discussion. The Oxford ideal of a free and dignified student forum to develop speakers of high calibre while providing also an extra curricular activity of some charm and glamour seems to have been consistently sought...
...dissipate in some degree the "moral and social fog" occasioned by loose thinking, the "Forum" has announced a definition contest to clarify such toil-worn terms of elastic meaning as "Americanism", "progress", "tolerance", and "propaganda". Although it would be impossible to cage all the connotations of a word or to halt its manipulation by argumentative proponents of social doctrine. It may still be possible to establish the mainspring of its sense and to relate its varied uses there...
...despite the curiosity likely to be aroused, it is probable that the "Forum" will soon conclude that it, like the philosopher, is "looking in a dark cellar for a black cat which isn't there". The real success of the contest will rather be found in the mere fact of its existence. For, although Diogenes never found the honest man, he proved that one could earnestly seek him. Thus in throwing athwart the mists, the silhouette of a thinker, the "Forum" will, perhaps, have more success in broadcasting a thoughtful method of approach to argument, than in clarifying specific terms...