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...followed in the immediate future. If a consortium of this nature can provide the funds and appoint a commission on which there shall be representatives of China as well as of the great powers which lend the money, China may reasonably expect thereby very great assistance in her momentous problem of securing international peace and the establishment of the country as an independent and wholesome member of the family of nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AIM OF AMERICA TO ACT AS FRIEND TO CHINA AND JAPAN" | 12/12/1919 | See Source »

...lectures which have been delivered thus far by Dr. T. M. Legge and Professor Levy-Bruhl. Professors C. H. Haskins LL. D., '08, R. H. Lord '06, and A. C. Coolidge '87, of the History Department of the University, will be the three lecturers who will discuss the problem of peace. Professor E. B. Hill of the Music Department will speak on "The Growth of Modern French Music." The other lectures will be delivered by Talcott Williams, professor emeritus of journalism and late director of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, who will discuss "the Ottoman Empire," and Professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL INSTITUTE LECTURES ANNOUNCED FOR WINTER TERM | 12/12/1919 | See Source »

...every part of the country. It is larger by 42 per cent than in 1918 and larger by 21 per cent than in 1916, the record-breaking year of pre-war prosperity. So immense and insistent has been the flow of men, that for many colleges the old-time problem of how to attract more students has given way to the problem of how to take care of the students who want to enter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1919 RECORD-BREAKING YEAR FOR AMERICAN COLLEGES | 12/6/1919 | See Source »

...receive these great numbers, and even had to tell many that they could not receive them, and although they found that educational conditions were in a chaotic state, they set to work to effect a readjustment on a fundamental and expansive basis. Today they are ready to solve any problem that may be thrust upon them and ready for an era of unparallelled prosperity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1919 RECORD-BREAKING YEAR FOR AMERICAN COLLEGES | 12/6/1919 | See Source »

Immediately following the Student Volunteer Convention in Des Moines, the Eighth National Convention of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association will be held in the same city on January 5, 1920. This convention will bring together representative students and professors from all important institutions to consider the liquor problem abroad, to gain a vision of the responsibility of American to other colleges of the world, and to work out the plans for an extension of the college prohibition movement to all other lands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATER-DRINKERS TO MEET AND ORATE AT DES MOINES | 12/5/1919 | See Source »