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After speaking in Milwaukee last night, President Lowell, who is chairman of the National Executive Committee of the League to Enforce Peace, will spend to day in Chicago, ill., where he will lunch with the Harvard Club. In the evening he will attend a dinner at the Congress Hotel to which 76 leaders of industry, commerce and finance have been invited "to consider a program for a permanent league of nations to become effective at the closer of the present war." He will be the principle speaker and will talk about the work of the League to Enforce Peace...
William Roscoe Thayer '84, of Cambridge, and George von L. Meyer '79 will be among the principal speakers at the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, which is to be held by the National Security League in Washington on January 25, 26 and 27. The subject of their addresses will be "America's Position as a World Power." A letter on "Constructive Patriotism," by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '80 will be read. Elihu Root, LL.D., '07, will speak on "America's Present," and Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, and Frederick Winsor '93, headmaster of Middlesex School, will address...
...purpose of the Congress is to develop an efficient national spirit and to investigate means of adopting national policies which will bring about thorough preparedness for this country. It is expected that a resolution favoring the adoption of universal military training will be adopted as one of the most definite steps of the organization. The points to be considered by the committees are as follows: To consider the methods of maintaining America's position as a world power; to aid Americanization; to advance national efficiency, with especial reference to the budget system for governmental financing; to unify the efforts...
According to unofficial information from Washington it is stated that Professor F. W. Taussig '79 has been asked by President Wilson to become a member of the Federal Tariff Commission, which will gather information for the benefit of Congress in revising the tariff. Professor Taussig declined yesterday to make any statement regarding his appointment...
...congress of English teachers recently assembled in New York found itself discussing whether its members do teach English; whether the language spoken by Americans of the rising generation is merely a dialect, or whether it has attained to the dignity of a distinct "American" tongue. Professor Scott, of the University of Michigan, hails the day when this indigenous language will be officially recognized. It will apparently be composed of our vernacular Esperonto, with a few relics of our Trans-Atlantic heritage as a concession to tradition. Mrs. Smith will extend bids to a dance. Policemen will become cops...