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...Cornell students have determined that oratory shall not become a lost art at their college, and impressed with the importance of giving the budding statesman a chance to spread his farreaching opinion among his fellow men, have decided to organize a mock Congress. This congress is to be composed, of course, of two houses, but the number of members is to be limited. The plan at present is to have the senate composed of eighteen members, chosen for their ability and skill in debate, while the remainder of the congress, about forty men, will make of themselves a House...
...students of the University of Vermont are to hold a mock courtmartial, under the direction of their military instructor...
...mock Congress has been organized at Michigan University...
...Wednesday's HERALD-CRIMSON, there is a letter signed "Graduate" urging the formation of a Harvard congress or mock parliament,-an assembly of students for the discussion of political subjects with a view towards benefiting themselves, and making themselves more suited for a political career. The writer does not seem aware that there was once here a Harvard legislature, the aims of which were those in great measure of the congress, which he is so anxious to see formed, and that this legislature or congress failed miserably...
...amusement, come here to have their opinions formed and widened on all subjects to be made men in a word. If this is true, the Union can not at present be a great debating society, nor can it hope to equal the Oxford and Cambridge Unions or English mock parliaments. The second reason is that but few men take an interest in the Union, especially among the class of men known as "society men." This is just what ought not to be, for from the society men-the moneyed gentlemen, the unemployed, come quite as much as from the opposing...