Word: east
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Positions in the Far East...
...increased demand is being met with by the Appointment Office for men to teach in the Far East, and the need has never been so urgent as it is now. Word has been received of several positions which are open. Five men are needed as teachers in the Canton Christian College (China), with Business Administration and English as subjects. O. E. Pomroy '05, 61 Sparks street, Cambridge is in charge of securing these...
...Poland. One only need look at the facts of population and history to refute this argument. In 1910 the population of West Prussia was 1,703,474 of which 980,-571 were of Polish stock. Frederick the Great added West Prussia to his kingdom, comprising Pomerania and East Prussia, in 1772 by the first partition of Poland. That province had been a part of the Polish kingdom since the treaty of Thom in 1466, when it had been acquired from the Teutonic Knights. In those three centuries West Prussia had become thoroughly Polish in population and customs. Danzig, added...
...June 20th, the annual Intercollegiate Student Conference will assemble at East Northfield, and from present indications, a representative delegation will attend from nearly every college and university in the East. The keynote of this year's program will be a study of reconstructional problems as applicable to college students, and a scrutiny of world obligations and undergraduate social standards. The program which has been drawn up by the committee in charge aims to bring forward the most direct appeals of the present period of readjustment while utilizing the experience and methods of conferences in other years...
...Clubs may not be accepted, but it is to be hoped that some similar merger will be decided upon at the meeting in June. It has long been a fault of the existing machinery that a majority of the officers of the Alumni Association have been chosen from the East, largely because the elections have been held at Commencement time and the men of the East have been present in preponderant numbers. The new organization, if put into effect, will doubtless provide a method for distributing the officers in a more representative fashion throughout the country...