Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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ill!-IE Nassau H,IERAI,D I wonder whether its members will haye time to do anything else than attend to their duties as committeemen. lVith the abolition of secrecy, the Halls ,have entered on a new order of life and it has been possible to unify and enlarge, under Hall auspices, the spheres of influence of the various lecture clubs and similar smaller organizations. The conHict of lectures has also been largely remedied by the appointment of a committee of supervision, useless organizations and one or two objectionable old customs have been cleared away without injuring the valuable qualities 'of campus life. In the religious activities of the University there has been evident a broadening and deepening tone with a corresponding tendency toward eniciency on the secular sides. The Fitch meetings of the spring of 1915 and the Robins meetings of last December were indicative of a thoughtfully planned and sanely handled effort to place the appeal of religion in its broadest sense before the college. Unless I am very much mistaken there was nothing spectacular or sensational connected with these meetings. On the contrary, they seem to have been marked by an earnestness which cannot have been without effect, touching life as they did on so many sides. I presume the establislnnent of the Murray Dodge forums one result of this application of common sense to the average man's problems, just as the unin- cation of the campus work of the Philadelphian Society, the Princeton work in Peking, and the Princeton Summer Camp, with a permanent secretary and headquarters in Murray Dodge, is evidence of the application of business principles, common sense, and efficiency, to an administration which, at least in years gone by, sadly needed them. It is the common observation of those who have watched the Princeton campus for an extended period that entirely aside from the ordinary run of outside activities, student interests have 'broadened enormously, that undergraduates are seriously concerned with political, social, civic, and industrial questions of the day, and that these interests are coming into closer al- liance with courses in the curriculum. The widening of the U81

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Yom: Pxzrxcrmox 1916 Bn 1 C-A-BRACU BOARD NASSAU HEIKALD CoMM1'r'1'lcE

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YOUR IJKINCETON qwlfli NAssAU I,1'1'EuAnY NIAGAZINEN Bcmlm THE NPRINCETONIANH Bofuum