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...fulfill this function, the memorial must be such as to provide an ever-present and active appeal to as many elements in the University as possible. That a chapel (or even compulsory attendance at chapel as we may see from our Yale neighbors) does not engender among the students an attitude of spiritual exaltation, scarcely requires proof, not is it strange. The student of today, and above all Harvard, has no use for the forms of religion. He lives in an age, as well as in a period of his own life, of revaluation of primary moral and intellectual conceptions...
...rate, whatever may be the cause, the fact is that a chapel with make no appeal to the majority of students, nor in a few years will its function be even remembered, as the present-day attitude towards Mem Hall Shows. If our object is in reality to aid the cause of education against war, let us take practical steps to that end through a Professor's Chair, or international scholarships, or some such means, rather than by raising merely another monument to the hypocrisy and futility of the Human face. Chester T. Lane...
...sort. It does not involve the general public, because the games for which there is a public sale are not effected. It is merely Harvard's method of raising through Harvard graduates the funds to be used for the most neglected phase of the University's proper function, which is the development of the complete...
From the beginning, the 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...
Heretofore a resolution for an investigation has been referred to the Committee on Audit & Control of Contingent Expenses, the chief function of which has been to estimate the probable cost of the investigation (cost of clerks, stenographers, transportation cost for witnesses, etc.). Then the resolution for an investigation has been voted on by the Senate. Generally it has been passed because Senators do not care to lay themselves open to the charge of having helped the Administration cover up its defects...