Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-25
WILL Be MORE
WORK; LESS PLAY
Social Demands Not to Be Per-
mitted to Interfere With
Study at Augustana.
COMMITTEE TO BE CENSOR
Will Exercise General Supervision
Over All Student Organizations
of College.

More studying and less social diver
sion is the edict gone forth from the
faculty to the students of Augustana
college. According to the faculty, So
cial tendencies are becoming too strong
at the college and scholarship is suffer
/ ing as result. In order to put on the
brakes, a special committee has been
appointed by the faculty to have super
vision over all clubs and societies with
/ a view of limiting the frequency and
/ time of meetings. and also preventing
students from belonging to too many
organizations. The duties of the com
mittee, as set down by the resolution
adopted by the faculty, are as follows:
1. To exercise a general supervision
over all student organizations of the
college and academy departments, as
follows: From time to time investi-
gate their programs and other exer-
cises; ascertain whether such exercises
are fairly distributed among the var
ious members, and in the event of any
marked departure from the original
aim and purpose of any society, report
this to the faculty.
hecOFuS OF students.
.. To keep a close watch upon the
society membership of the individual
students TO the end that society work
may not prove detriment TO the reg
ular class work. For this purpose the
committee shall at all times have on
file a record of the society membership
of each student The data for this rec
ord shall be furnished by the secre-
taries of the various organizations. At
the beginning of each term each organ
ization shall through its secretary. /
submit to the committee a complete
list of its members, and subsequently /
give immediate notice of any change
in such list.
3. To inspect the records and ac-
counts Of the various organizations F.
when deemed necessary by the COM
mittee.
The following rules have also been /
laid down for the regulation of socie- .
ties and organizations:
Four Days TabOOed.
1. No public entertainment shall, as
a rule, be given Monday. Tuesday, .
Wednesday or Thursday evenings.
2 Exclusive of time spent in socie- /
ties Friday evenings, no student shall .
be allowed more than six hours per
week for attending the meetings of
athletic, literary. scientific, musical, So
cial or other organizations. OF these
six hours not more than four may be
taken during the regular school days,
and of these four not more than two
NAV he evening hours
3. If in the opinion of the commit
tee on student organizations, the num-
Der of hours granted for society pur-
poses interferes with the regular class
work Of any student this number of
hours may be reduced for such a stu
dent by the committee
Excluded from Gymnasium.
In accordance with these rules, the
of all societies and organ
izatiOns have already been instructed
to submit their membership lists to the
committee and also various other infor-
nation in regard to the purposes of the
organizations. The board of control
took first action last night to enforce
the rule in respect to athletics. Twelve
who are not up in their class
work were excluded from the use of
the gymnasium by the action of the
board Further action on the part of
the committee on organization is ex-
Dected when the exact status of the
society membership is learned.