Word: congress
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...hundred student delegates representing 129 colleges and universities in 36 of the states, in Hawail and in London, England, attended the Third Annual Congress of the National Federation of America at Lincoin, Nebraska last December, it was announced by the Executive Committee of the organization recently...
...subject taken up at the Congress was "The Student in the Community and as a Citizen." To the various phases of this subject the discussion groups were apportioned, including groups to discuss student government, the honor system, fraternities, curriculum, training for public careers, and athletics. Parallel to these discussion groups were the open meetings of the six standing committees on finance, travel, curriculum, international relations, publicity, and organization. These meetings served a purpose similar to that of the discussion groups, except that they were based on the activities of permanent committees which had been working for the past year...
...also decided at the Congress that a permanent central office should be established and that the functions of this office should be taken over by the president and his secretary, with the provision that if the state of finances should warrant the establishment of a separate central office, this should be effected...
...Women, to Study the Civil and Political Status of Women in the American Republics-no less-was what the governors of the Pan-American Union last week appointed Doris Stevens to be. Miss Stevens, a moving spirit within the National Woman's Party, attended the Pan-American Congress last January in Havana to present an Equal Rights Treaty. This was the result, gratifying to herself and colleagues. Said she: "A step of great significance . . . challenge to law makers the world over." She outlined the scope of a new super-suffrage for women of the Western Hemisphere, from Hudson...
...good many sections of the country and ineffectively enforced," he remarked, "I am still convinced that it has been of inestimable value. Moreover," the foremost dry advocate in the Democratic ranks stated, "It may be of interest to you to know that there is no appreciable sentiment in Congress that promises any recession whatever from the policy of the Eighteenth Amendment...