Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Professor Whittlesey has a course, Geography 1, which meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in room forty-one of the Geology Museum. There during the next ten weeks he will discuss "the different types of agriculture found on the earth: first the sorts of farming within the tropics, next those of middle latitudes, progressing constantly away from the Equator." That program has just the flavor of the unusual to attract to the Vagabond. Incidentally, Professor Whittlesey is treating the course this year from an entirely new angle. Confidentially, it is reported that even his jokes are of the 1930 vintage...
...letter printed elsewhere on this page puts forth a case for maintaining a forum where undergraduates may discuss current political, sociological, and economic problems. There can be little quarrel with the main argument of the correspondent, that there would be value in a communal meeting point at Harvard for all students with more than a passive interest in current events and their underlying causes and ultimate effects...
...controversial questions for discussion will do much to dissipate any appearance of artificiality. After the welcoming address on Saturday morning by President Angell of Yale, who is Honorary President of the Advisory Council for the Assembly, the eleventh session of the sixth plenary meeting will immediately convene. They will discuss the "Compulsory Settlement of All International Disputes by Peaceful Means." The discussion will take the form of a debate on an amendment to the Covenant designed to "close the gap" which at present permits of war as a means of settlement of some disputes. Several amendments would be necessary...
While the representatives of the powers are debating at the London Conference how to preserve peace by a proper balance of military strength, there is being made at New Haven an attempt to bring peace by a student discussion of international problems. The New England Colleges' League of Nations Model Assembly which will be held on April 25-27 will discuss in open forum the problems which are hindering amity among nations...
...institution. It is a school where students in the later stages of their academic course are brought together from many countries to meet one another and a distinguished and equally international group of university teachers. It is a place for students to meet, to hear diverse view-points, to discuss them, and to grow to understand them. It provides a vivid opportunity for the close and comparative study of national cultures and of all the psychological differences which have hitherto acted as barriers to international cooperation...