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THE PRESS--

A Bulldog Program

The News has immediate opinions to offer on the seven following subjects:

I. Undergraduate Yale the Raison D'Etre for the Whole:--Whereas it is fitting and desirable that some institutions be centers of wholesale and higher learning, stressing graduate work, we believe that at this university the graduate schools should exist primarily because they make possible a better undergraduate system: that Yale should be distinctly an "undergraduate university".

II. Removal, in Yale College, of practically all curricular restriction after Sophomore year:--A very great extension of the honors courses so that instead of depending purely on grades, this opportunity would follow normally satisfactory work during the first two years and be dependent on the volition of the student and the opinion and council of his instructor, i. e. No man should be barred from honors in English because he pulled down his average to bare passing by sixties in Mathematics and Science.

III. Less unintelligent extra-curricular activities, and less participation in the extra-curricular for mere name and glory rather than interest: Unnecessary work which tests nothing but submissive endurance should be removed in so far as it is possible from managerial and publication competitions. We will consistently oppose such tendency as may exist to honor a man for the positions he holds rather than for what he is.

IV. Fraternities status quo plus the open house:--No more fraternities should be introduced into Yale College until normal rather than artificial equilibrium be established among general pleasure and enjoyment be had from the large amount of money which must be spent a un fraternity buildings in the immediate future. The spirit of existing interfraternity agreement must remain unimpaired. Yale College would suffer immeasurably from the magnified interfraternity competition and the consequent exaggeration of fraternity importance.

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V. Political interest the Whole Duty of a Yale Man:--Graduates of Yale should be the active, intelligent voters and among the leaders in national and local government. We will encourage political interest by aiding the Union, by inviting significant speakers to the University and by fostering in such ways as may seem most feasible interest in doubting.

VI. The Honor System Must Succeed: To go back to faculty supervision would be to go from bad to worse. The undergraduate body as a whole prefers and believes in the Honor System and delinquents must not be tolerated.

VII. Religion: We oppose in fact and principle the compulsory attendance at religious expresses, Yale News.

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