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Your editorial on the choice of ideals for undergraduate magazines, though justly censuring the existing waste of effort, fails to take account of a purpose more vital than that of encouraging undergraduate writing. This purpose is to serve the function for our University which the professional magazines do for the nation...
...connection with the fourth function which the council hopes to assume, lies the chief danger of such an organization. To decide justly disputes between clubs will require the most careful investigation and impartial analysis. Even between clubs which are members of the council this will be hard enough, and should differences arise between societies allied with the federated clubs and other institutions, an unprejudiced decision will be most difficult to reach. The officers of the Council of Federated Clubs must, if they hope to attain their ends, treat all organizations with strict impartiality, and appreciate the fact that priority...
...poem submitted, the other for the best piece of prose composition. These conditions allow the budding author to express his thoughts in any form which they may take, so giving free rein to the writer's individuality. In this respect the Monthly's prizes have a new and distinct function, and should prove a real factor in stimulating undergraduate literary activity...
Brooks House has to contend with conditions which are met with in few, if any, other colleges. The Union supplies the undergraduates with a common meeting place, and its reading rooms supplant the usual function of the religious society's library. No glamor is attached to the work carried on in Brooks House, as is the case elsewhere, so that many fail to notice its existence. Although its activities are many and varied, they are in the main connected with social service work outside of the University, upon which branch of its administration it is to be congratulated. The excellent...
...Phillips Brooks House, resulted as follows: president, R. C. Floyd '11; vice-president, B. Baker 1G.; secretary, H. E. Wetzel '11; treasurer, C. S. Collier '11. The newly elected officers will take charge of the association on March 1. Following the election E. C. Carter '00 discussed "The Function of a University Christian Association...