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...Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio, has been appointed Lecturer on Labor Problems at the Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Williams has done much speaking in recent months on his experiences and observations during a period when he worked as a day-laborer in order to study labor conditions at first-hand...
...program for the conference has been tentatively arranged. It will consist, first, of a series of religious discussion groups led by Dr. H. B. Sharman of Toronto, Professor K. S. Latourette, Dr. A. K. Foster and others. Religious questions and problems of personal faith will be discussed in these groups. There will also be a course on the "Work of the Church Overseas" in the form of discussions and forums led by men fresh from overseas, the purpose of which will be to give first-hand and scientific information concerning certain parts of the world, especially the Near East...
...this will be the first time that President Lowell has ever addressed the students of the University at an open meeting on any but distinctly academic topics, an unusual opportunity is offered tomorrow evening to hear a recognized authority on current history. Through frequent trips to Washington, where he had ample occasion to gain a first-hand knowledge of national happenings from the men concerned in them and with the background of his training and long instruction in the science of government, on which he has written several authoritative books, President Lowell knows his subject from the bottom. The speech...
...following article, written for the CRIMSON, Norman Hapgood '90, who also has had first-hand Russian information because of his recently completed term as American Ambassador to Denmark and his trip to Russia, strongly advises the Allies to keep their hands off Russia and let her settle her own reconstruction problems. He writes...
...Vanderlip to the Faculty of the Business School is in keeping with its policy of maintaining close personal contact with the business world. Mr. Vanderlip is a man of keen insight and high intelligence, who has had the experience of exercising economic control on a large scale. His first-hand knowledge of high finance and of economic conditions all over the world, coupled with his interest in the theoretical phases of the modern business structure, should make his connection with the University exceptionally fruitful...