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...list of 19 delegates to the National Convention will be completed at the meeting; three, Lane, Levy, and Aaron Himmelhoch '38, were elected on November '23. Possible recommendations to the convention, scheduled for December 27 to 31 at Vassar, will concern the association's labor and peace policies, and the Oxford Pledge, Sutro said...
Unlike political conventions, scientific conventions are assembled not to agree on a common program of action but to toss individual contributions into a hopper of common learning. The preoccupations of the American Philosophical Society, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for '"promoting useful knowledge," concern almost every kind of science. Preoccupation of the American Physical Society, founded in 1899, is straightforward physics, let the philosophical chips fall where they may; but physics may include anything from the electrical conductivity of a safety pin to the fringes of the universe. Last week the American Philosophical Society assembled in Philadelphia...
...Cedric Adams' personal concern was relieved when his good friend & tipster, Dr. Russel R. Noice, walked into the Star office, made known he was ready to tell police he had overheard a murder plotted in the cheap League of Nations beer parlor, but that the intended victim was not Corcoran but another labor leader. Soon Alderman A. G. Bastis revealed that not only Patrick Corcoran but four other labor leaders had been marked for death, that Corcoran himself knew he was in danger, that Rumorist Adams had merely printed what had been widely whispered in Twin City labor circles...
...beginning of cooperation in teaching teachers ought to break down the old barriers between the School and other departments. Some day soon the School will seek more cooperation, when it asks the School of Public Administration to help it train superintendents. Teaching should be an important concern of every one in any way connected with education, for no university can advance learning, nor disseminate knowledge, unless its system of education can act with freedom and integrity. The understanding of educational policy, which even transcends the importance of "teaching teachers to teach," is necessary to the very keeping of American civilization...
...could have proposed vigorous action to "quarantine world lawlessness," and the United Kingdom would have been bound to follow in giving the Conference a shove in that direction. Instead, the keynote struck by Ambassador Davis was: "We come to this Conference to study with our colleagues the problems which concern...