Abstract

Students and Politics

A student's organization has one of two fairly well-defined purposes it exists either to make the path of learning an easier one, or to promote a body of specific political doctrine in which its members are interested. Its purpose is to provide relief, to pool information, to arrange the exchange of visits. It pays no attention to the student's nationality, religious creed, political outlook or economic views with one exception. Few people doubt that a university may well develop student societies of every political sort. It is an admirable thing for the undergraduate to have a political outlook which he can examine either in conjunction with those who share it or in organized discussion with those who believe his political views to be wholly wrong.