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Whatever one may think of the Rotary Clubs in some phases of their activity there can be nothing but whole hearted support for the plan of international scholarships announced yesterday by Casimir de Rham of the Rotary Club of Jersey City...
...world. In this manner a fund sufficient to send many students from America to European Universities and vice versa would quickly be accumulated. It seems likely that Mr. de Rham's scheme will be approved by the International Rotary Convention this June. The purpose which has actuated the Jersey City Club is not by any means new but it is not and can never be shop worn. Mr. de Rham says, "it is hoped by means of this movement to strengthen the bond between nations through the universal fellowship of study...
...action of the Jersey City Rotary Club opens a new vista of activity in the field of international study. Is it not quite possible that the dozens of other business men's organization in the United States should follow their lead? What then becomes of Main Street, Mr. Babbitt, and even Sinclair Lewis. With all its flummery and posing the joining spirit of contemporary America must have in it a deeper and more fundamental element. Dartmouth debaters travel New Hampshire to clash before business men's clubs on the International Debt Settlement. Rotary sends students for study in Europe...
...brief, Princeton has the New Jersey countryside, and Yale has Savin Rock, but Harvard has only Back Pay--and Brattle Hall. Each has its advantages, and they differ. Mr. Farrar is only carning at the inevitable...
...legislatures of Massachusetts, Utah, Connecticut and the District of Columbia bills based on the Baumes laws were under consideration; in Kentucky, Louisiana and Minnesota such bills were being prepared; in New Jersey the Biro act (a similar bill) was passed by the Assembly. The Indiana Senate passed a law banning machine guns; Kansas Senators passed a bill reviving capital punishment...