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...three students are Antonin Palacek, who is connected with the so-called "Student Renaissance" in Czecho-Slovakia; Joachim Fried rich of Heidleberg; and William E. Robson of the London School of Economics. Mr. George D. Pratt '21, Foreign Secretary of the National Student Forum, will also be present...
...University will be held at the Liberal Club at which the foreign students will all be present. At this time the trio will discuss informally matters which prove to be of common interest. After a luncheon today at 1 o'clock at the club, Antonio Palacek of Czecho-Slovakia will speak...
Students from the universities of Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Holland, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and England were officially present at the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants held recently at the Hague. Students from Hungary, Ireland and Latvia also attended, as did Russian Emigre students. The question of German participation was referred to the various national unions. The C. I. E. was formed in Strasbourg in 1919 "for conference about matters of educational and social interest and joint action for the furtherance of their common aims." All religious and political questions are barred. The Confederation is now convened...
Following on the heels of uproars in the French Chamber of Deputies and the Japanese Diet, described in the last issue of TIME, comes the news of tumultuous scenes in the Czecho-Slovakian Chamber of Deputies. When the Speaker announced that the report of the committee of Constitutional Law on the Defence of the Realm Bill would be read, Dr. Smeral, leader of the communists, gave the signal for a deafening onslaught of noise from his party. A tattoo was drummed with despatch boxes on the desks. Whistles, large bells and trumpets joined in one concerted, inharmonious, deafening...
...many respects, the Czecho-Slovak situation is similar to that of India, where native dialects are even more numerous. And in the Indian universities, the question has been solved in the same way. English is the language of education, like Latin in the days before the European tongues crystallized into definite form. Probably the reaction of India in favor of native languages, native traditions and literature will have its counterpart in Czecho-Slovakia if English is too widely employed. At present, however, nothing retards its extensive use in advertising and road signs; even means, which are often printed in French...