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...least twice this number could have been used. This work consists mainly in leading boys' clubs of different kinds, teaching English to foreigners, and, for law students, free legal advice to the poor. In addition, almost every week in the college year a free entertainment is given in some settlement house. Besides these opportunities to help, other students do their bit by serving on various committees, which, among other things, collect money for the support of the work, old clothes for the poor, and books for the Loan Library...
This concert is a special performance given under the auspices of the Boston Music School Settlement, and is in no way connected with the series of three concerts which the club will give at Symphony Hall later in the season. Since all the seats for the hall, which acommodates 2700, have been sold out for more than a week, standing room only will be available...
...further resolved that it is the sense of the Intercollegiate Conference that the Washington Conference will not have attained its objective without first; a settlement of the Far Eastern question based upon principles which will make practicable the reduction of naval armaments; second, an agreement to suspend all present programmes for naval construction and to undertake no further expansion; third, an agreement to reduce substantially the present naval strength of the nations concerned...
...Open Door as the foundation of their relations with China, the article which Philander Knox amplified when he proposed the neutralization of the Manchurian Railways, and the article which Woodrow Wilson repudiated when he consented to the cession of Shantung to Japan. An international agreement which initiated a promising settlement of the problem of China would accomplish as much for the future peace of the world as would a healing of the quarrel between France and Germany, and it would remove one of the most formidable obstacles to the limitation of naval armaments. For it is the aggressive policy...
...students of China will be represented by delegates sent under the auspices of the Chinese students' committee on the Washington conference. This committee, which was formed "to promote international peace and just settlement of Far East problems", has sent a communication to Princeton stating in part, "We are eager to join with you at the conference on Oct. 26 and to cooperate with you in the promotion of our common aims...