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Woodrow Wilson Clubs will be organized in the colleges and Universities throughout the country, today, the fourth anniversary of America's entry into the world war. They will be, modeled on the Wilson Club started at the University last November and will have for their object the collection of all available data concerning the Peace Conference, the expression of the sentiment among college men in favor of the League of Nations, and the perpetuating of ex-President Wilson's ideas in regard to world peace. The immediate program of the clubs is to have public meetings addressed by speakers...
...Woods overlooks the fact that the playwright, the author, the poet, the newspaper, the musician--all shape public taste, thought and opinion. No one would begrudge any playwright for making a living by writing bedroom farces, if that be his ambitions, but there are many who object to hear the declaration that these are what they, a goodly part of the public, want. The American theatre-goer has had no real opportunity to choose between the Shakespearean drama and the modern farcical acrobatics. It is inaccurate to say that one thing is preferred to another unless both have been equally...
...July 3. This conference was changed from Northfield to Silver Bay last year because of the advantages the latter has with its seventy buildings, athletic grounds, and beautiful location on Lake George which is in that district known as "the "Switzerland of America" because of its scenery. The object of the conference is to discuss social, religious and economic problems of the day. A series of lectures will be given by men who are expert in these fields...
...special historical articles by experts, together with a summary of the five major sports from their beginning. For illustrations there will be approximately 200 group pictures of major teams in the period that covers the era in which athletics have been an important factor in college life. The main object of the committee in preparing the book is to give a complete and unified story of the University's half century or more; to preserve in permanent form, for the use of graduates and others, an important chapter in the life of the college...
...interest Harvard men in one of these questions, that of Armenia, was, Mr. Morgenthau declared, his chief object in coming to speak at Cambridge. He then proceeded to give a brief history of Armenia, explaining that it had suffered more than the other countries of Asia Minor during the past centuries, because it has been the buffer state between Western civilization and the invading Asiatic hordes. The last of these invaders were the Turks, who have remained, and have succeeded, after 700 years, in absorbing into their barbarism all the civilization that their conquered countries had built up for thousands...