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...accordance with a resolution passed by the University Debating Council on Thursday, November 7, to the effect that upper-class debating should be left to individual enterprise, an entirely new system of debating clubs has grown up within the University. In the place of the Agora and Forum of last year, there are now five independent societies, with a total membership of about 85. Two of them still retain the names of Agora and Forum, but they have been change constitutionally in the direction of informality. Debating has now become an essentially informal affair, and three of the clubs...
...refrain from 8 o'clock recitations, and have therefore no need and no inclination to be awakened at 7. Moreover, in exceptional cases, alarm-clocks are used, and prove quite efficient. This custom, then, which served a purpose a few generations ago, and which has, in modern times, out-grown its usefulness and become inconsistent with the liberties accorded in other ways to the members of the University, is entirely out of place, and should, for the comfort of the community, be abolished. SENIOR...
That the business of the Co-operative has in recent years grown to large proportions, is evidenced by the statements that the Society now utilizes all four floors of its building with over 14,000 square feet of floor space; that throughout the academic year it maintains on its pay roll an average of over sixty employees, and that it disburses for wages, taxes, printing, expressage, water, light, heat, and supplies, an average of about $1,000 per week. In the delivery service four teams are kept constantly employed and during the busy seasons these facilities are increased. Owning...
...principles the lecturer pointed out several popular misapprehensions. Industry formerly consisted in the production of articles for the community by its members, and not often was one man able to influence the production of other places. But today, owing to the continual industrial revolutions, the wealth-producing machine has grown complex and often the trade of a district and sometimes of many states is influenced by the will of a small body of men, who are perhaps far off and over whom there is no legal control...
...mission movement had two distinct motives, philanthropic pity for the moral condition of the heathen, and dogmatic intensity to spread Christianity. The spirit has since grown better and broader because of the growth of humanism and of the increased knowledge of the spirit and life f the East...