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...angle of the conventional criticism of the present-day college is that it is too much detached from the ordinary, prosaic life beyond the pale of campus or club. Is this criticism just? Perhaps the logical reply is that the college in order to serve its proper function must be 'quite detached from the narrowness and pettiness of everyday existence; that it should not wallow in the muck of sordid partyism, but that it should cling to a rational idealism, attempting to apply its formulas worked out in the experiment station to the unscientific and illogical conditions of an unreasoning...
...solution is obvious; an undergraduate organization to fill the need of a furniture exchange, were founded, would be of service in more than one way. Its function would be to buy all furniture that is for sale in the spring, at a fair price; in the fall to sell the furniture to new students for a price different from that paid in the spring only by an amount large enough to provide an adequate return on the capital invested and the labor involved; it is not uncertain that the dealers; fall price includes much more than this. A bureau...
...Gompers in his recent attack against the capitalists, criticises the industrial court of Kansas as an institution seeking to inject into American life a device through which they may annual constitutional guarantees and deprive workers of the freedom and right to function through their organization. This would seem to be a biased opinion and in truth does not represent the real significance of this new feature in our judiciary system...
Miss Mary Switzer Radcliffe replied to President Eliot. She state that the function of the proposed organization should be the presentation to students of facts relating to the practical work that is to be done in the world beyond college. In this way she said the organization would be powerful in breaking down the isolation of student life in America...
...Luncheon in the Trophy Room. Toastmistress, Miss Muriel Moris, Wellessley, short speeches will follow by Roger N. Daldwin '05, on "The Social Function of Revolt": Augustus G. Dill '08. on "Liberalism and the Negro"; H. W. L. Dana '03, on "universities and the Workers"; John Haynes Holmes '02, subject not announced; Harry W. Ladiler, on "The Task Ahead": John F. Lewis Jr., on "Commercialization"; Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch, subject not announced; J. W. Morris, on "the English Parallel"; Henry Mussey, on "Making Congress Servo the People...