Word: generality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...different colleges and universities to meet and discuss together the problems common to all. They are held each summer under the auspices of a central committee, and are of a religious character. The problems discussed are all those which affect the growth and welfare of colleges, with the general aim of moral and educational progress through the co-operation of representative students of the various institutions. The business of the Conference goes on in the morning and evening, leaving the afternoon free for informal athletic competition of various kinds between members of the different colleges...
This year the Conference will be held during the last ten days of June, and some forty colleges and universities will be represented. Prominent speakers will address the gathering, including Bishop Lawrence, and Dr. John R. Mott, General Secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. Surely attendance at this Conference will be a broadening opportunity to meet men from other colleges and other sections of the country. No less surely will it mean a distinct service performed for the ultimate good of the University itself...
...Hasty Pudding Club's spring production, "Crowns and Clowns", are proceeding satisfactorily and all will be ready for the opening performance in the Hasty Pudding Theatre next Thursday evening, April 17, at 8.15. Only a very few tickets remain unsold for this first performance, but a limited number of general admissions will be available at the box office on Thursday evening...
...Clark, Jr., '19 Anna, sister of the King, Cupid's contribution to Bolshevism, H. C. Flower, Jr., '19 Borus, would be president of a would be republic of Czecho-Ptomania, C. Canfield '19 Catherine, sister of Borus, a socialist with a social twist, D. H. Read '19 General Hupincoff, J. Lavalle, J.r, '18 Colonel Umptski, A. Horween '20 Gumbutoff, Anabaptistical Attendant Idolizing Borus, R. H. Ware '20 Flitch, his dog, a Ptomania fleece-hound, The Dog Peter B. Heinz, of the 57 Workshop, Author of the Book, and admits it, C. LaFarge '20 Gedapski, just a horse J. C. Bolton...
...similar institutions at other colleges, which were much more representative than the S. A. T. C. of college military training as it is in peace time, and which by concensus of opinion were highly successful. He waxes most enthusiastic in his denunciation apparently of all college training systems in general. In a speech to members of the Madison Civics Club he stressed the fact that "not even the hateful Prussian military system was ever extended to curtail the freedom enjoyed in the German universities." In their circular letter the Union Against Militarism adds this even more oratorical climax...