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PROF. ZUEBLIN'S VIEWS ON AN ORGANIZED SOCIETY.

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It is pleasure to call attention to the series of lectures by Professor Zueblin under the auspices of the Ethical Society, the second of which will be delivered at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Under the title of "A Democratic Religion" Professor Zueblin throws the light of the best modern American thought upon some of the questions which present-day undergraduates find filling a large share of their more serious consideration. We venture to believe that in some respects the views of the undergraduates are more nearly correct under modern conditions than those of "the powers that be" in the University. An example will illustrate: We undergraduates believe, by democratic and thorough organization of all the undergraduate community into classes, teams, class dormitories, and the like, and with the whole strengthened by the presence of an untrammeled system of intercollegiate games, that each individual is given a better chance, and the "esprit de corps" of the University greatly increased. Apparently, our elders have little faith in this kind of organization. They would have each man go his way, as separate from the rest as each grain in a pile of sand.

In this difference of point of view, but in relation to the larger outside world, Professor Zueblin stands for the side seldom presented from platforms of this University. Just as undergraduates believe that the undergraduate community should be an organized unit, Professor Zueblin believes that society at large is an organized whole. Right or wrong, the view is one which, in its relation to the history that is making in this country today, must at least be considered. And a more delightful exposition of it than Professor Zueblin's it would be hard to find.

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