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tion to infra-university physical education, and especially outdoor 

 sports. It is likely that this should be a faculty-student cooperative 

 committee. 



2. On social affairs and social life : One of the constant complaints 

 made in the average university is with reference to the lack of interest 

 on the part of the faculty in the social life of the student body; and it 

 is a more or less disgraceful fact that a very large number of the uni- 

 versity students and faculty as well have practically no part in what is 

 ordinarily called the social life. A committee of cordially cooperating 

 faculty-student membership could do very much towards minimizing 

 some of the excesses of social life on the part of some and the un- 

 healthy lack of social life on the part of others. Perhaps the most im- 

 portant part of the committee's work might be the interesting of faculty 

 members in the actualities of the social life of the school. There 

 should be no attempt, of course, to dictate in any sense at all, but only 

 to cooperate in securing to every individual some normal exercise of his 

 social instincts. 



3. On student activities : Every student should take part in some 

 non-scholastic enterprise about the school. At the present time some 

 students have too many of these enterprises in their control, while 

 others are probably just to that extent prevented from having any real 

 share in the out-of-school interests of the student body. Such a com- 

 mittee, of course, could make itself officiously offensive, but a com- 

 mittee of teachers who had not enough tact to be helpful in matters of 

 this kind certainly would be made up of men and women who have no 

 business to be teaching. Such a committee should have a large mem- 

 bership and should be organized to help promote all phases of legiti- 

 mate " student activity " in the university. 



4. On religious and moral problems in the university: Our state 

 universities are lacking in their provision for the larger religious and 

 moral enterprises. Officially, perhaps, little can be done by the school ; 

 but a volunteer committee, working with student organizations, can do 

 very much to save those organizations from becoming insipid and to 

 secure to the student body some actual participation in the world's 

 treasures of religious culture, and to help them find their vital rela- 

 tionship to the real work of the world along religious and moral lines. 



5. On relationships with the state at large : Here is, perhaps, one 

 of the most important opportunities for such volunteer committee work. 

 The committee should be made up of a strong group of men and wo- 

 men who are vitally interested in the problems of the state. The com- 

 mittee might well be a sort of critical directorate and moral support 

 for the university extension work. It should feel perfectly free to 

 criticize that extension work when it does not seem to be getting proper 

 results in its plans for the state; and it should not hesitate to present 



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