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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of athletic representatives from Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Yale and the University was held in New York City last Friday morning in order to discuss the question of athletics as affected by the war. The conference was called by the Board of Directors of the University of Pennsylvania Athletic Association, which had hoped that some arrangement might be effected whereby intercollegiate contests should continue. By the early morning announcements of most of the larger colleges, however, in which all athletics were called off, action on this question became useless. Some indefinite plans were made for the continuance of informal...
Professor Robert Matteson Johnston, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, will speak on "Forms of Military Service" in Emerson J this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Man power and practical efficiency will be discussed in the lecture, as well as forms of service. The latter is intended to show the many fields in which there are opportunities open. Professor Johnston will also discuss the compulsory and volunteer systems of raising an army. After the lecture he will answer questions...
...explain the different forms of service open to University men, showing how there is an opportunity for all to serve. He will also take up the compulsory system, showing how impossible a volunteer system is for raising an army of the size that is now used. He will also discuss man power and practical efficiency. After the lecture he will answer questions...
...will discuss in connection with his subject Colombia's relations with the United States, referring to the recognition of Panama by the United States, one acquisition of the Ganal Zone in 1903, and the proposed treaty between the countries. He will also consider the economic aspects and natural resources of the republic, and will show the opportunities for investment, there. Colombia is important from an international point of view because of its proximity to the Canal, and the doubts that have recently been expressed about the maintenance of stringent neutrality...
Professor Leo S. Rowe, of the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss "The Relations Between the United States and Mexico Since 1911" on May 3 and 5. Professor Rowe served as secretary of the recent American-Mexican border commission. The last lecture will be given by Romulo S. Naon, Argentine ambassador to the United States, on May 17. His subject will be "Argentine Diplomacy...