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There are others in the college who consider that the religious interests of the University would be better served if to the strictly religious elements there should be added the humane elements as represented by some of the more serious literary societies. These persons would provide in the new building for such societies as the O. K., the Signet and any others whose interests were of distinctly elevating character. In this way both of these elements would gain by contact. The literary men would find a healthy influence in the religious societies, and the latter would be broadened by contact...
...religious societies of the college. Just what the scope of such a building should be, whether it should be used exclusively by the religious societies, or whether it should be devoted to social as well as religious purposes is a question which deserves the most serious consideration. It is in a realization, then, of the importance of the subject that we urge every Y. M. C. A. man to lend his voice to the discussion this evening in order that whatever action the Association may take will be most carefully considered, and most helpful to the interest of the best...
...indirectly injure him.- (b) Business of departments would suffer from absence of heads; Morrill, 424. - (c) It would force President to appoint cabinet officers for parliamentary ability rather than for executive power; Nation, XXVIII, 243. - (d) It would increase party dissensions: Cox, 438; Hare, Const. Law, I, 178. - (e) Serious complications would arise when executive and legislative were of different parties...
...college at the same age as now, but prepared in more advanced subjects. This system has the advantage of presenting college life to a man when he is mature enough to appreciate it. Any reduction of the age at which men should enter college would be attended by this serious object...
...might advantageously be studied at school. The elements of natural science, freshman classics and freshman mathematics might well be mastered before college is entered. Then with the resources of the college at hand, the student would be able to start right in, without these freshman preliminaries, to the more serious work of the college. Whether it would be better under these circumstances to limit the college course to three years, thereby allowing the graduate to begin on his professional work a year earlier, is another question...