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THE AFTERMATH : IV. 1 I. I 6 €Htr platform S DURING our course we have spent considerable time in the study of economics, and have given consideration to the platforms of the great political parties of the country, we have slowly and perhaps unconsciously formulated for ourselves a number of principles in which we believe, and these principles form the platform upon which as a class we stand. The first plank of this platform has to do with the length of the day. We advocate the adding of three hours to each day, making a total of twenty-seven hours, and also that the number of hours of sleep demanded by young men in order to keep healthy be reduced from seven hours to four. This will give the student six more hours per day for study, and besides benefiting him will enable the faculty to add several new subjects in each course. Until this change is made we feel that the existing state of things at Tech should be altered in some respects. We consider the problem of athletics as one of perplexing importance. We have no gymnasium, we have no training table, we have no regular physical director and trainer, we have no facilities for indoor baseball and track practice, we have but little time for training of any kind. Nevertheless, we protest against the practice of playing prep, school and similar teams. If we defeat them we gain no glory. If they defeat us the experience is rather humiliating. We had far better play college teams and be defeated. We believe in the method of raising athletic money introduced by our representatives on the Board of Directors ; namely, to make each class responsible for a certain amount of money, to collect by assessment as much as possible, and to make up the difference from the class treasury. We deprecate the lack of student mass meetings, meetings where the entire student body and force of instructors should be brought together from time to time. We live too much to ourselves, and are
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N IN E T E E N HUNDREDS- T W () 7 acquainted only in our own course or department or division. Whether these meetings should assume the form of chapel exercises, or lectures on current topics and matters of scientific interest by outside speakers, or some other form, we are not prepared to say ; but we hope that some such course will be adopted in the near future. We commend the opening of Newton Hall as an Institute dormitory. The Hall has filled a long-felt want in the student life of the Polytechnic, and we hope that it will be continued. We express our approval of the efforts of certain professors in arranging inspection trips. Although financial reasons sometimes inter¬ fere with our unlimited participation in the trips, we enjoy them when we do go, and derive much profit therefrom. In the middle of our course we advocated an “open-door policy ” in regard to the Boynton Hall Library, and we hereby express our thanks and appreciation of the change. We recommend that the policy be extended, at least during certain hours or on stated afternoons, to the geological, domical, and other museums. We denounce cribbing as dishonorable. We stand for clean, honest examinations, and are proud of the statement made to us by Prof. Haynes at the conclusion of our course with him. We regard with disfavor the new ruling which the Shops have been obliged to make in regard to permit and extra work. We believe in the shop work, and we regret to see it cut down. A man is naturally more interested in that which he does for his friends or himself, which he is to use or see used, than in work which is cast aside or burned up, or put into the regular stock of the erecting department. Therefore any attempt to discourage the making of book-cases and desks, of picture frames and window-seats, of Morris chairs and wrought-iron lampstands by the students on extra time we view with disapproval and disap¬ pointment. Our course has brought 11s varied experiences, and we have learned many lessons not found in books. We have come to understand human nature somewhat, and have lost much of the conceit that we carried away from our prep, schools. We realize that the world stands not in need of more men but of more man.
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