Word: congress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...additional information in regard to the competition may be obtained from any member of the committee in charge composed of A. H. Parker '97, 50 Congress street, Boston, J. S. Seabury, 70 Kilby street, E. Scott '20 and L. Lanman '20, Hasty Pudding Club Cambridge...
...last night's reports are true, the balance of sentiment in the Peace Congress has lately turned in favor of admitting the German Republic to the League on the same basis with all other nations, as soon as she carries out all the obligations of the peace imposed upon her. The only argument in favor of such a move seems to be a hope that Germany as a League member can be better watched and more regularly inspected for illicit accumulation of war materials, than as a non-member. If the peace terms are as adequate and effective...
...less than an abridgement of liberty. The subordinate position of women, which nineteen centuries of the Christian era have only just managed to outgrow was a survival from barbaric times, when early man first discovered that he was physically stronger than his mate. The passing by the Sixty-Sixth Congress of the proposed Nineteenth Amendment marks the final step in the breaking down of this age-old prejudice, based as it is upon the bestial and pre-Adamite assumption that might makes right. We therefore hail the approaching advent of equal suffrage for women, confident that it is an indispensably...
...Congress of International Students, including representatives from colleges and universities in every nation of the world, has begun a series of sessions at Paris. It seems that this body originated from a so-called International Circle of men and women students in the French capital, who first banded themselves together about a year ago. With the demobilization of allied armies since the armistice and the liberal granting of furloughs and leaves to those not yet discharged from service, the organization has grown into a recognized and thoroughly representative body. The objects of the Congress may be summed up in that...
...thoroughly in harmony with the co-operative spirit and purpose of this Congress, and we wish all success to its deliberations. Even if little of immediate practical importance is accomplished, surely a great world movement for student co-operation will have been launched, and the very launching, will have been more than worth while. When M. Jean Fuielle, General Secretary of the organization, visits Cambridge in the course of his projected tour of American colleges and universities, we are sure that Harvard men will give his plans for the closer international co-operation of college students their warmest support...