Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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President Eliot will address a meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club this evening at 8 o'clock in the Union. The subject of the talk will be: "The Necessity for Reform in National Education and the Deficiency of the Present Situation." This meeting, to which all foreign students are invited, is the second of a series of lectures planned by the Cosmopolitan Club for the current year...
...Popular Mechanics" is now a sharer in the glory of the "Cosmopolitan" and the "Transcript" in that it receives attention to the extent of a copious special number of the Lampoon. To the unmechanically inclined reader there must be satisfaction in finding here the realization of many of his most impractical dreams, and genial and often pointed scoffing at the more obvious foibles of one of the chief ornaments of our newsstands. Whether the devoted reader of "Popular Mechanics" who has for years compounded folding beds out of hen houses by following the directions in his favorite periodical, will...
Each one of these representatives will hold conferences with men of their own nationality all day tomorrow. In the evening the Cosmopolitan Club of the University, will give a dinner in their honor in the Trophy Room of the Union...
...Committee of Advisers of Foreign Students, formed by the Phillips Brooks House Association, is a great help to such students. Mr. Matthew Luce, Regent, is the Chairman, and W. E. Bennet '23, Foreign Student Secretary of the association, is Secretary. The committee includes the President of the Cosmopolitan Club, Francisco Vela. Each of the five national groups is in the charge of a professor assisted by a student, foreign or American who acts as key man. The duties of these professors are to help the students to select the proper courses, to receive them at their homes whenever convenient...
...intellectual centres, especially at so cosmopolitan a university as Harvard, such blindness to what is going on, such lack of interest, and such lack of information and suggestive discussion is far from salutary. As a definite step to illuminate the question for ourselves and perhaps for others, may we not suggest that several lectures be given by a member of the Faculty familiar with the situation, and by some prominent Japanese? In any case, something of the sort ought to be done at Harvard to clear up a situation whose very laziness forbodes evil. A. E. MIRSKY...