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Contrary to its previous custom, the Forum Committee does not plan to choose the subject for discussion at the next Forum itself but, in order to make the institution truly representative, invites suggestions from the members of the University. This is a further step toward the real purpose of the founders of this institution for open debate on subjects vitally concerning and coming from the student body...
...Harvard Forum was organized as a University institution by the Speakers' Club in the fall of 1912 and was convened five times during the college year. These meetings were open to all members of the University and attracted a large and representative average attendance. Problems relating to undergraduate life and also to broader questions of political significance were discussed. Experience proved that the former subject aroused much more interest and enthusiasm than the latter...
Since it is in the main true that the topics which attract the most interest are those dealing with the immediate problems of the University, the committee deems it advisable to use the Forum, for the present at least, principally for the discussion of important undergraduate subjects, such as "Should Hockey be made a Major Sport?" a question which was solved at one of the Forums last year. Herein the Forum offers an effective -- in practice, the only effective -- means of ascertaining undergraduate opinion, and it is therefore an invaluable aid to the Student Council...
...Graduate of a Smaller College who has pleased us with his Graduate Student's Impressions of Harvard in the Christmas issue of the Alumni Bulletin has written in sharp contrast to the Confessions of Mr. Stearns who has used the Forum to stir our wrath. The Graduate Student writes delightfully and flatteringly of our University; yet he has found room for faults which have been impressed on him. With a freshness and toleration, the antithesis of the sourness and personal tone of the Confessions, the Impressions satisfy us, but still sound a warning against the unnatural and artificial indifference which...
...present methods of teaching and practicing public speaking. For the purpose of discussing the most advisable course to follow in effecting any changes in this matter, a meeting of professors and teachers from different colleges and schools was held last spring. It is the aim of those comprising this forum to promote and increase interest in the subject of public speaking and to bring about an improvement in teaching the subject. It is generally agreed that there should be systematic instruction in oral English and public speaking throughout the whole period of school and college training...