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NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES
Haverford

The formation of an undergraduate com-
mittee whose duty it shall be to personally
interview as many candidates for admission
‘as possible was approved by the Faculty
at a meeting held Thursday, March 20, at
Haverford. :

This committee will request each appli-
cant to meet with it on a date convenient

_ to a majority of those concerned. After-|

‘tthe interview the prospective Haverfordian
will be’ entertained on the campus by the
committee. A written record will be kept
of the results of each of these conferences.
These records will be turitd over to the
Faculty Committee on Admission, who will
make use of this information in selecting
those who are on the border line on the
question of admission.
| Those who pass all the entrance exami-
nations ‘according to this scheme will be
admitted without question. The remainder
of the incoming class will be. selected by
the Faculty Committee, who will make use
of the report of the Undergraduate Com-
mittee in making their decision.

Dartmouth

‘Dartmouth undergraduates are taking the
lead among colleges in organizing for in-
dependent political action. For the purpose
of educating American students to bri
about co-operation between labor an
learning for the formation of a labor party
modeled on the British Labor Party:as well
as for the purpose of sending delegates to
the Cleveland Convention of liberal groups
an undergraduate Dartmouth Club for. In-
‘dependent Political Action has been formed.

The. formation of the organization was
brought about: by the feeling of dissatis-
faction with the existing political order.
‘The unearthing of the oil scandal showed
the Dartmouth group the condition of po-
litical corruption which now exists and the
control of the government by big business.

Drastic changes in the curriculum are
being considered at Dartmouth.-The pro-
posed changes’ made for/much less freedom
in the choice of courses during the first
two years of college, and for much greater
freedom during the last two years. The
object of the changes is to give the college
man a more comprehensive education dur-
ing his first two years, and a chance to
specialize more on his major during the
Juniof and Senior years.

Carnegie Institute*

An efficient system by which a student’s
participation in extra-curricular events may
be regulated is being sought by students of
Carnegie Institute. The system now in
effect there, similar to the one adopted by
Haverford several years ago, has proven
useless, due to the difficulties encountered
in its application. .

The plan originated several years ago,
but until this year had not been carried
out on any adequate scale. A list of every
student’s activities had to be kept, and this
task required an inordinate amount of
work, The system was found to be not
only difficult to maintain, but to have a
depressing effect upon activities rather than
inducing an interest_in them.

It has frequently been demonstrated that
a student who becomes affiliated with -too
many activities soon automatically discards
some of his responsibilities, and a natural
system rather than an artificial set of rules
determines a student’s capacity for. extra-
curricular work. ‘

Antioch

“To. create men and. women. that are
versatile and symmetric in their lives and
.to instill an intuitive sense into the world,
is the modest aim of Antioch College,” said
President A. E. Morgan, of that institution,
in an address given at Yale, March 17.

By a combination of industrial training
and practice with the study of the liberal

| Warts, Antioch strives to give the student

‘a broad view of life. In President Mor-
gan’s opinion, the chief faults with the
average education is that it tends to train
a in such a narrow way that after
graduation it takes him a long time to find
himsélf; it shapes men to fit as cogs in

large L.\sinesses and industries to the neg-.
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spirit of individual enterprise.



New School of Social Research
Successful results are reported by the
secretary of the New School of Social Re-
search, conducted for adults, in. New York

City, in which the students control their |’

courseS and select their own professors,
After gaining experience by taking chargé
of individual: courses, it is expected that
eventually the students. will ‘run the school
completely.

COLLEGE MEN PLAN EXCUR.
SION TO ENGLAND AND FRANCE

Complete ‘Third Class on Saxonia
Reserved for College Students



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Under the chairmanship ‘of Mr. B. D.
Adams, of “The Oaks,” Ithaca, N. Y., col-
lege men are arranging an economical ex-

cursion to England, France and other Eu-|

ropean ‘countries this summer, sailing from
New York for Plymouth, Cherbourg and
Southampton on June 21 in the third cabin
of the “Saxonia,” and returning home on
the same ship from Southampton and Cher-
bourg on September 6. The “Saxonia’s”
entire third. class has been reserved for
the college men, and_no others will be
admitted.

Th cost for the round trip has been
placed at $165, and the chairman says that
with the. low rate of exchange prevailing
abroad students’ may enjoy two months’

r sight-seeing and attending exhibitions, fairs,

athletic mets, and kindred attractions for
$400.

Mr. Adams says that the exclusive third
cabin will answer the increased demand
for an economical and comfortable mode
of transportation to Europe. On this ex-
cursion non-students and immjgrants will
positively be excluded from the third class,
thereby eliminating what has been the eco-
nomical traveler’s only objection to the
modern third class. The chairman prom-
ises. “Good wholesome British food four
times a day.”

Students. are invited to jae their musi-
cal instruments along, so that impromptu
parties, “song fests” and musical evenings
may be the rule. The Cunard Line will
arrange to store the instruments until the
ship returns in September.

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-|DR. ROSS EXPLAINS CHANGE

IN MEANING OF RELIGION

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The ecclesiastical authority has decreased
and is disappearing, according to Dr. Ross,
but there is a new-authority, that of nature.
Like laws for the preservation of health
it is a saving factor of life. The clergy
can do less and less for one.
cording to the Dean of St. Paul’s, they
are no longer necessary. The things of
the spirit have become democratized, and
at the same time individualized. All is
personal and must be faced by each in-
dividual alone. In the appalling uniform-
ity there is a struggle to be one’s self, for
only thus can one solve one’s problems.
Even, “getting religion” is not an exceptiqn,
because some can only find solitude in a
group. Little can be done by external



| forces except in the direction of thought

on certain books, and a slight’ pressure on
the will.

In the slight influence that can. be
brought to bear there is a division of
Christianity that» ought to be recognized.
St. Paul, in a bitter mood, unconsciously
divided—it-into- Jesus, Spirit, and—Gospel.
Christianity is a historical religion, not a
philosophy or series of facts, but both.
Jesus was as secular as Caesar, for he
occurred as a historical fact. He is not the
“saccharine idpl of any individual pietist,”
but ‘the son of Joseph. He stands as the
center of human history. By bringing man
and God into a new relation, He is the
concern of us all, and there is more to
Him than we now know. When he crashed
into history with a force that has lasted
until now, He appeared not in the réle of
a teacher, but in that of an imperious
master. Our duty is to know ‘him at first
hand through the Gospels and the see





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HERE, SAYS MR. SIMPSON

The Gospels are Paul’s itepretaogggpr HE KINGDOM OF GOD IS
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a person who demanded explanation.
too huge’in its whole conception, however,
to be discussed,

‘The third division is that of the Spirit.
When the world‘is analyzed, it is found to
be made of tempers. There are two; a
dangerous one of self-interest that ex-
presses itself in, the worship of military
glory and economic greatness; in politics
that of pedple opposed to change, whose
rabid patriotism is.synenymous with a re-
ligion of institutions,’ prejudices, and sec-
tarianism. The other temper, a force of
good, is reducible to the temper of Christ
and is that of an internationalist, a minister
to all, who depends on God, and* moves
freely with Him, arttd finally mediates God-
to other men.

REPUBLICAN CLUBS STARRED
IN MANY COLLEGES



President of Columbia Commends the
4. “Organization of Such Clubs

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With the- purpose of becoming better
acquainted with leading political issues and
Republican party - principles, many thou-
sands of college students throughout the
country are enrolling in college Republican
clitbs, organized. under the College Bureau
of the Republican National Committee.

Both undergraduates .and alumni are
joining in the movement, now under way
at over a hundred colleges, to encourage
a deeper interest in the nation’s political
problems. "At Ohio State University. the
Republican Club announces a membership
of 2300, Nineteen hundred alumni are en-
rolled in the club at Harvard, Purdue
University has a Republican club with 600
members, and clubs at other colleges report
similarly large enrollments. ,

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of

Columbia University, has issued a state--

ment commending the nation-wide organi-
zations of college Republican clubs. Dr.
Butler, noted educator and publicist, is an
earnest advocate of early political training.
Regarding the movement to interest and
instruct college students in matters of cur-
rent American politics, he says:

“Many of us are greatly concerned at
the widespread lack of interest, ir political
principles and policies and in the growing
unwillingness to assume any share of po-
litical responsibility. Nos political institu-
tions will work themselves. The best form

of government requires good men and|]-’

women to: operate it.

“Just now we are faced by a situation
in which the overwhelming majority of our
important public offices are filled by the
votes of but a mere fraction of the quali-
fied electorate. Year after year candidates
for public office who secure at so-called
direct primaries from five per cent. to ten
per cent. of the vote of. the qualified elec-
torate, receive party nominations, and are
then elected to high office by the votes of
from ten to thirty per cent. of the qualified
electorate. The consequence is that we are
everywhere faced by minority rule.

“Many of our young people have grown
up and.are growing up under conditions
which confuse them as to the meaning of
political issues and which conceal from
them the fact that fundamental principles
of government are frequently at stake when
least suspected. A cure for this condition
will be found in arousing political interest
and in bringing accurate political informa-
tion to the thousands of intelligent and
high-spirited youth .who are to-be found
in our colleges and universities.”

DR. FEARN TO HOLD CONFERENCE

The Rey. L. W. Fearn wil hold a con-
ference in Lyme, Conn., about three hours
from New York, from May 17 to May 26,
This includes two weqk-ends, so that it
will be very convenient to attend. “The
subject is not yet decided upon, but will
undoubtedly be interesting. For further
particulars, see E. Mallett, Pembroke-East.

Married
Siete Yen; ex-26, to Mr. J. Y. Louie,

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There is great joy in giving up every-
thing and none until everything is given up.
The utiiversal love, which is the God in us,
can take no prescribed form. But all our
loving becomes mere sentiment and moral
drunkenness unless feeling something we
do something. Love cannot own.: “If you
are afraid someone will take something of
yours you hac& better get rid of it.” Let
your wealth consist in being, in loving, and
in giving. , Not a stick of property can a
man take and keep without using the or-_
ganized violence of society, and a man of
love cannot do that.

Not only must we stop owning things, we
must stop trying to own people by extend-
ing our ego over them, as do parents over
their children and a man over the woman
he loves or she over him. In such love is
a miserable element which demands love in
return. “When an entirelg unselfish love
for all people is achieved, it goes out as
the love of God goes out.” It cannot be
a parasite living on rent, interest, and
dividends, but will set him who has it to
work. He will find it intolerable that some
should have ease and an abundance of
things for lack of which others perish. He
will feel that if some must eatin the
kitchen, then he will be one of them.

Such ‘universal love means that all must
be forgiven. When we love as God loves
we will love as impartially as the sun
shines, to give life to any and all. We can-
not -have one eye on effectiveness and one
on results; we must have a sublime itn-
difference to results. Having put our hands
to the plow we may not-turn back. It is
better to turn af@ hate our father and i
mother than to let anyone turn us aside
from being true to God.

As to who may follow such a course,
Mr. ‘Simpson safd that “as long as anyone .
can go on as he is now going, let him go
on.” Those whom the dream hath posessed
must go on, even though they know that
at the last none can live by that love with-
out coming to Calvary. Such_a-man_sees
what we are and what God is. He cries,
“Repent, see how good the world is.” He
would make men say, “If God wants us to
be fools, we will be fools,”

OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED
TO STUDY IN MEXICO

American Friends Committee Seeks
International Understanding

“American students and teachers are in-
vited to enjoy the privileges of study at
the National University of Mexico,” writes
Douglas L. Parker, representative of the
American Friends’ Service Committee in
Mexico.

“The Revolution is over and the =
are returning to normal activities,” says Dr,
“Mexico wants and needs our
friendship, and the Summer School of the
Mexican National University is one of the
most potent agencies for the fostering of
international friendship and uriderstanding
between Americans and Mexicans,

“The rates are reasonable, the climate
delightful and the opportunities unusual for
American students to study Mexican life
and civilization. A knowledge of the Span-
ish language is not.a prerequisite.”

The American Friends’ Service Commit-
tee,,for whom Mr. Parker is a representa-
tive, is interested in efforts to create in=
terfational good will and understanding.
Mexicans are distrustful of foreign ex-
ploiters. If our students can have first-
hand knowledge of local conditions there,
a basjs would be formed for better rela-
tions. :

The Fourth Summer Session of the na-
tional University of Mexico is held in
Mexico City from July 9 to August 22,
1924. Beginning, intermediate and ad-

tvanced students of Spanish will find here

most favorable opportunities for studying
that language. Facilities for research in

history and archaeology are exceptional.

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