Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salute you, men and women, born in a war period, bravely facing failure to replace anarchy with government, taking up the torch of civilization!" spat out white-haired, dinner-jacketed Manley O. Hudson '01, Bemis Professor of International Law, closing the initial meeting of the New England Model League Assembly in the New Lecture Hall last evening. Saved to the end of a red-tape program which had obviously bored him, to prevent the audience from melting away, Professor Hudson had benignantly fulfilled the League's hopes telling the assemblage that the institution which they imitate is a going concern...
Delegates from virtually every New England college will be in Cambridge for the next three days to attend the sessions of the Model League of Nations. Harvard is pleased to welcome them and to hope that the meeting will be as successful as its sponsors expect...
Since the withdrawal of the League of Nations as a force in world politics, the criticism has frequently been heard that if the real League is no longer of importance, the Model League can scarcely serve any useful purpose. The criticism misses its point. As a school in the particular kind of parliamentary procedure used at Geneva, the Model League was never of any more consequence than a travelling menagerie. The real function of the League was in stirring up student interest in world affairs at a time when the American undergraduate was peculiarly apathetic on that score...
...question may be asked, however, whether this function is any longer of much importance. Any student whose apathy to world problems has resisted all the arresting events of the last year will scarcely be stimulated by any amount of empty pageantry. And the Model League could never do much more than arouse interest. In applying this interest, once aroused, there are too many channels more effective than the Model League...
...required information for Harvard delegates to the Model League of Nations is on shelf 17 of the Widenor Reading Room. Delegates are requested to read this material...