Word: american
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Members of Memorial Hall who will be absent from the University during the Christmas recess need not sign off for meals during that time, as no charge will be made against them. The restaurant will be open during the entire recess, and men may obtain meals by the American or European plan. By the former plan board will be furnished for two five-day periods, from December 23 to 28, and from December 29 to January 2, at $3.75 for each period. By the European plan a charge will be made only for food actually ordered. In either case...
This convention will be of unusual importance in that one of its chief objects will be to bring about an affiliation of the American association with the Corda Fratres, looking toward a world-wide union of students in the cause of "international peace and the universal brotherhood of man." Reports will be read from the different clubs in America showing the progress of Cosmopolitanism in the United States...
After the affiliation of the European and the American organizations, the international society will adopt the name. Federation Internationelle des Etudiants. The stated object of this consolidation is "the propaganda of the world peace movement." Under the direction of an executive committee from the international federation semi-monthly and annual publications will be issued setting forth the progress of the work...
...program of the three days' convention of the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs, to be held at Cornell University from Wednesday to Friday of this week, suggests the importance which attaches to the cosmopolitan movement. There are twenty-three American chapters in the Association, and it is now proposed to establish relations with similar student organizations of European universities. A feature of the meeting will be the breaking of ground for a new club house for the Cornell chapter...
...American Association is only three years old, and though some of the individual chapters are a few years older the whole organization is one of the very modern developments in the colleges. Foreign students are now coming to this country in numbers large enough to counterbalance the exodus of American students to European institutions. The development of the teaching of applied sciences here accounts for the presence of many of them, in part they are immigrants who are wisely commencing their permanent residence in this country by a university course...