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...time set for the annual Union Christmas Dinner next Thursday has been set back from 6.30 to 6.15 o'clock to accommodate Dr. Max Habicht of Geneva, Switzerland, the guest and principal speaker for the evening, who will be forced to leave earlier than was first planned...
...Habicht, who is President of the European International Confederation of Students, is at present a student in the Law School although he holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Geneva. After speaking a few words on the work of the C. I. E. in Europe, he has agreed to the request of the Union management to play a selection of Swiss folk songs on the accordion. Dr. Habicht is exceptionally talented on this instrument and has helped in many benefit entertainments...
...Geneva officials of the Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations penned with one swift stroke and three twiddles a figure which stonecutters quaintly render "M." The figure represented the number of international agreements deposited and registered, up to last week, with the League of Nations. Far and wide, diplomats remarked that for the League to have already accumulated 1,000 such documents, constituted no insignificant tribute to its prestige...
...fifty years, we have played our role in a league of nations which now happily includes nearly all the peoples of the world the Universal Postal Union. We have even begun to feel our way toward some method of sharing in all the cooperation now under way at Geneva. But in the big advance since the war, we who stood out most valiantly for international law and order while we were a young, struggling nation, have not only not been able to keep our leadership, we have ceased for a time even to follow. To save our position among...
...Geneva is the only visitor entirely new to Cambridge. The new eleven halls from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and will be coached by Bo MacMillan, former Center College captain, whose brilliant eleven downed Harvard...