Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow evening, initial steps will be taken to organize at Harvard a permanent undergraduate League of Nations. The plans as outlined in a tentative constitution call for a represent from the familiar intercollegiate Model League in that countries will be represented as far as possible by their own nationals. The council embracing representatives of fifteen countries will prepare "agenda" for the larger Assembly...
...instituting such an organization, its founders have avoided most of the objections to the loudly ballyhooed avowedly propagandist Model Leagues. Making no serious attempt at nationalistic representation and wasting a good share of their time in futile bickering over the details of predetermined conclusions, those gatherings have become little other than a social function. The new Harvard League, through its representative character should assure some expression of national sentiment; its permanence will encourage more serious study of international difficulties than does the distant and temporary character of its unhappy prototype...
...chief faults of the Model League system remains uncorrected. Much of the value of the discussion is inevitably lost in the fatuous pantomining of Geneva formality. An understanding of the organization of the League of Nations is necessary, but it can be satisfactorily secured from a cursory study of texts; to utilize this machinery as a means for stimulating an interest in international problems merely defeats its own purpose and, by an unnatural ease in reaching preconveived decisions, imparts a false impression of the activities of the League. If students desire to discuss international affairs, it would be far better...
...model airline operated by Eastern Air Transport and Transamerican Airlines. For a $5 fare, to demonstrate standard airline practice, the planes carried passengers around a 60-mi. circuit to the Ford, Wayne County, Grosse He and Walker airports...
...drawn up by the preparatory committee the League will have as members all the nations represented in the University including Russia and the United States, as well as any other countries that are not members of the real League. The plan is to make the Harvard League not a Model League, but a representative League. The Council is to be in the form of an executive committee composed of 15 nations, and its functions will be largely those of preparing agenda for the Assembly. At Thursday's meeting the plan and constitution will be explained in detail; the committee hopes...