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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...provision might be made to insure the continuation of similar conferences. A committee from the Student Council might meet annually with the Board of Overseers to represent the undergraduate opinion, when that opinion could be of value; or the scheme might be carried even further so that a representative group of undergraduates might meet on certain occasions with the Faculty...
...prohibition to joy rides. Nearly everywhere there is clear thought and clear expression--occasionally there is distinction, and only rarely, real mediocrity. A reading of the whole number conveys very much the impression given by an afternoon spent in "good talk"--if such an afternoon were possible--with a group of active and well-informed undergraduates of no type and confined to no one set of ideas. Perhaps here is a step toward the representative magazine we talk so much about...
...limit arbitrarily a man's capacity for work, to restrain ability, is non-congruent with the ideals and aims of Harvard. An undergraduate may go whither his powers lead him; no cage is placed about him. Our sister universities sacrifice the individual for the entire group, when, if they would but seek them, tasks for all would be found, without limiting the exceptional undergraduate...
Harvard, however, does not choose a small group to act as trustees for the student body. Officers of every description are widely distributed throughout the four classes. The intensity of competition for all important positions automatically impose the necessary restrictions. For instance, Yale forbids--and Princeton proposes to--one man from holding two major sport managerships. Rarely, if ever, has there been a two "H" manager. The results of artificially limiting activities will be a decrease in competition, tending to lower the standards of the positions...
...designed for medical students, which will bring such delegates to the conference together for at least an hour a day. W. H. Tinker, General Secretary of the University of Michigan, who has made a special study of the problems of professional school students, will be in charge of this group...