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bound together,- (x) They pursued same courses.- (y) Met together at prayers, etc.- (z) Numbers of class were small.- (2) Members of club would not feel themselves to be a social unit.- (x) They could not become acquainted with all fellow members.- (y) Would not be thrown together as were members of the class.
III. Though a few may be benefited, yet the University club would not bring permanent social improvement.- (a) Increased numbers of the University would render it impossible for a University club to perform intended functions.- (1) In ten or twenty years proposed club could extend its advantages to comparatively few men.- (x) It is very probable that University will continue to increase at present rate.- (I) Only check on increase is growth of Western universities.- (II) Such growth is likely to be very slow.- (y) Such a club, ipse facto, must be of somewhat limited facilities.- (2) It would not then prevent social disintegration.- (x) It would not then "furnish a meeting place for mass of students."- (y) It would not then unify Harvard spirit.- (b) No experience of other universities can form a basis of argument as to success of this.- (1) Oxford and Cambridge Unions are successes because number of students is steady.- (2) Yale University Club is fundamentally different in its organization from proposed club.- (x) Seniors and juniors only are admitted.- (y) members of club are carefully selected.
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