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...meeting of the Zionist Society in the Shepard Room of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8.15 o'clock, Dr. Schmaeya Levin will speak on "The Belgians of Civilization." Dr. Levin is a graduate of the University of Berlin and was a member of the first Russian Duma. He started for Europe on the Cecile at the outbreak of the war but that vessel being forced to return, he toured the United States with the object of securing aid for the suffering Belgians. All members of the University may attend...
...last four or five years there has been a great growth of democratic ideas the world over. In every country the government has drawn closer to the people. In Russia, the Duma has been set up; in China, a constitutional government has been started with an organic law and a senate; in Turkey, the same step has been taken; in England, the Budget was passed over the veto of the House of Lords; and in this country, the overthrow of Cannonism by progressive Republicans and progressive Democrats has been a triumph for democracy...
...Alexis Aladyin, the head of the first Russian Peasant party in the Duma, in his speech in the Union on Wednesday, suggested that a petition signed by as many students as possible be presented to Congress, voicing a protest against the practises of the Russian government against its people...
...illustrated talk on his own experiences in Russia. Mr. Durland was born in New York, attended Harvard for a time, and then went to the Universities of Edinburgh and Paris. He was in Russia at the time when the Czar made his famous speech at the opening of the Duma, reporting for Harper's Weekly. The things which he tells of in his talk were witnessed by his own eyes, and the pictures he shows, are very vivid witnesses of these sights...
Alexis Aladyin, the last speaker, best known as the leader of the peasant party in the last Russian Duma, has a very great influence over the entire industrial and farmers' party, and is one of the strongest revolutionary forces in Russia. Though born a peasant, he is well educated, speaking English, French, and Italian fluently. He has often visited London, and has given talks in Whitechapel, the heart of the laboring quarter. In 1905 he returned to St. Petersburg, and was asked by the peasants to run for deputy in the Duma. On receiving information that he was being watched...