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...final meeting of Club before the recess, Jane Addams, writer and lecturer on social and political reform, will speak on "Disarmament". Miss Addams, founder of the Hull House Social Settlement in Chicago, is known as America's foremost woman social worker. She is at present chairman of the Women's Peace Party and of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace...
...auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union next Wednesday evening, March 30. All members of the University who are either taking part in or are interested in Social Service are invited. The heads of several of the Boston settlement houses will be present, and will speak on the various features of settlement work...
During the past winter the Social Service Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association has had requests for over five hundred workers from various settlement houses and boys' clubs in Boston and Cambridge. At a meeting last fall the needs of the settlement houses were outlined and volunteers called for. A large number of men answered the call and have been working throughout the winter under the direction of the Social Service Committee, but there have not been nearly enough workers to satisfy the demand...
...been intimated further that Japan is clinging to Yap for purposes of negotiation: ownership of land in California, the occupation of Siberia, the Shantung question, and various other phases of Japanese policy would be accorded settlement more favorable to Nippon if she held the whip hand over us by virtue of the Yap dispute. With this in mind, the Japanese stand firm upon the question. But mature consideration of the place which the United States now holds in the financial and commercial world, and the keystone position she maintains with reference to German reparations would seem to indicate that...
...stakes in this struggle transcend in importance the national issue involved. The wealth of Upper Silesia means so much to Germany as to make the result of the plebiscite a definite factor in the reparations settlement. On that settlement hinges the economic future of Europe. And from the results of the previous plebiscites held in West and East Prussia, it appears that Silesia will follow suit in desiring a German annexation...