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...great pity that the necessity was ever allowed to arise. The undergraduate has been told by the outside world that he is the "hope of the future," until he can almost feel himself seated in the Presidential chair. But this furnishes no excuse for the neglect of present-day duties. We have seen of late the beginning of a healthy undergraduate interest in the affairs of the race, and in a discussion of its problems. But the University has also its right to share in our attention the matter of class elections is only one phase. There is no reason...
...make a fair estimate from the experience of previous similar conferences at North field. The morning is divided into periods of varying lengths for discussion groups and meetings. One of the periods is devoted to studying the application of the principles and teachings of the life of Christ to present-day problems through the use of such a book as Rauschenbusch's "Social Principles of Jesus," or Charmand's "Jesus in the Records." It is interesting to consider sometimes what college life would be like if college men were guided in their thought and action by the life of Christ...
...would become "fed up"; but this is not true, as there are intermissions between periods, and as attendance at all of the courses is not compulsory. In conclusion let me sum up the daily program by saying that it offers a practical course of study of world-wide present-day problems in a congenial environment without infringing on one's complete enloyment of the summer vacation. F. W. WILLETT...
...present-day maze of quickly succeeding events and complex economic and political developments, the average undergraduate wanders about, eagerly seizing such bits of the news as have meaning for him, rejecting the rest. He has a vague feeling that when we "get back to normal times" he may be able to find out what it all means. The reason that he cannot grasp it now is, primarily, that he does not know where to find adequate accounts of current affairs, nor how to correlate his knowledge of them. In the second place he has not enough time. He usually reads...
...urging the establishment of a course in Industrial Relations, at the University, the Governor of Kansas has voiced the feelings of many students of present-day problems. One often hears the cry that the colleges are too much wrapped up in their own affairs to give heed to the questions of the moment. Such a complaint, it is true, has far less justification at the present than it had ten years ago; but there is still ground for criticism...