Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...earnest desire of the majority of students here for a direct and authoritative explanation of the League situation would make it more worth while, if the Student Council and the University authorities are so minded, to secure another speaker. Of course Mr. Taft is the most prominent available leader of constructive thought on this subject. But there is no dearth of other fair-minded and serious Americans who have studied the problem. Perhaps one or more of them would be glad to address a collegiate League of Nations mass-meeting...
Additional features for this year's conference have been announced by the Northfield authorities. There will be a special series of addresses on the "Construction of a Christian Democracy," by J. S. Wilson, the labor leader from California...
...Athletic Committee, Francis W. Hatch '19 of Medford was elected captain of the University tennis team yesterday afternoon. Hatch prepared at Volkman School, played on his Freshman team and is considered one of the strongest players in the University. The second team also met and chose for a leader Dwight P. Robinson '20, of New York City, while the 1922 team unanimously elected C. Parker Holmes, of Providence, R. I. Holmes played two years at Exeter and was captain in his last year...
...time in our history has there been such need for great statesmen for leaders with broad, individual ideas. Where are we to find such men if not in the colleges? It should be Harvard's aim to act as leader in a new movement to make intellectual achievement more attractive. The division of various courses into sections, in order that the more able students may have more opportunity for development, would be a valuable, though it is by no means a complete solution of the question. Students, as individuals, should be given more attention; competition in scholarship should be stimulated...
...Yale, the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, minister of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, Charles W. Gilkey '03, pastor of Baptist Church, Chicago, Dr. Zwemer from Arabia, authority on Mohammedanism at the University of Cairo, David Yui of China, and J. Stitt Wilson, a well-known labor leader and lecturer from California. These men will address the Conference in the mornings and evenings and will offer as well the opportunity for personal discussion with the individual members of the delegations...