Students and Democracy.
Not only did they discuss the rights and wrongs of democratic government among the students of Smith College (America’s largest college for women only), but they practised it within, Dr Ralph Harlow, of the faculty .of the college, told the Wellington branch of the English Speaking Union yesterday. The ideals of democracy were inculcated into the students during the whole of their sojourn at school. The discipline of the school was left in their hands. There was an avenue of appeal to the faculty, but only on two occasions were the decisions of the students vetoed, and in both cases the veto was exercised because it was thought that the students had been too severe.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1938, Page 6
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118Students and Democracy. Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1938, Page 6
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