The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-29
NORWICH UNIVERSITY.
Series of Chapel Talks Has Been Insti-
tuted.

Norwich university has instituted Sc
ries OF chapel talks which amounts to an
extra curriculum course. These were N
stituted last year shortly after the ar
rival of the new president, but the mat
ter was not fully systematized until the
present college year. The success OF the
plan has been fully demonstrated. A
committee of faculty members has been
appointed for the purpose OF systematlz'
ing the program and for arranging dates
for the various speakers
The arrangements OF subjects has been
done with the view of acquainting the
undergraduates with all forms OF college
activities, and giving them a clear in
sight into the inside of an educational in
stitution, as well as the opinions OF va
rious members OF the Institutional force.
The plan assumes that in most eduea-
tional institutions the undergraduate
gets nothing but the classroom view OF
things. He knows little or nothing about
the problems confron ting the adminlstra-
tive officers or those who do the teaching.
II is believed that a better understanding
of these things will do much toward i'm
proving college spirit aud causing the
undergraduate TO take deeper personal
interest in college matters outside OF his
own course of study. II also has its edu-
.cational value, as it gives him course
OF lectures covering wide range OF sub
iects which he otherwise would not Sc
cure, and the tendency should be, and no
doubt will be- that of giving HIM broad
err education.
Every member OF the faculty is on the
program and number OF the subjects
have been assigned to distinguished edu-
Gators, engineers and other professional
men not actively connected with the uni
yersity.
The program for the following year is
As follows: 1l Social activities inter
fraternity relations, fraternities, the
need and purpose Of social functions, the
college man as a social animal, commons
hall. college and town, students and fac
ulty. class and nterclass relations, So
cial centers. social ethics dances, indoor
games, concerts, drama cantata, imita
ton circus; (2l athleties-value OF attn
| letics in Vermont. interiraternity attn
| letics. aiding the athlete, major sports
| control, eligibility rules secondary sched-
ule, boxing bouts, physical training, IN
door track, swimming, personal training,
| management; 81 legal-the college man
! in a college town, responsibility for class
action: "a finance-the college, the stu
dent. fraternties, athletic property, prot
| it earning activities, agent soliciting
newspaper advertising; go prospective
! students-the undergraduate and the
sub freshman. methods Of interesting
prospective students, methods OF other
colleges -results the kind to get, the re,
ception of the new student; t6) current
eyents-colege men in war, the effect oil
war upon education, present political
problems. the college man in politics
activities affecting vacations, interpreta
ton of some phase of the war; "a en-
trance neutrality-suspicious. offered bS
different preparations, when is student
properly prepared for college; Isl AGA
demic standards scholarship, grading
credits outside OF curriculum, high ranh
in class and future success, relative value
cultural and vocational courses, the OBJ
iect of education, the psychology o.
study; (9l the student rs An alumnus
keeping in touch with the college, The
duty and obligation of the alumnus
alumni organizations; tl0l culture anC
Lcollepe mantle true culture, culture a.
an element of success, college criticize'
for failure to improve the true culture
the students responsibility, the military
for the civilian.