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Mount Holyoke College at South Hadley will be the scene on April 12 and 13 of a Model Assembly of the League of Nations in which a majority of New England colleges will participate. This meeting has been arranged on the initiative of students at Amherst, Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Smith, with the cooperation of the League of Nations Association...
Harvard students desiring to go to the conference either as delegates to the League or the Labor Office meetings or as observers should write immediately to Miss Bonnie Bell Guernsey, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley. Applicants should state which organization they are interested in, and what country they desire to represent. The expenses will be limited to those incidental to transportation and to meals on Saturday; men chosen by the council as delegates after the submission of names will be given free lodging, but it will be necessary for observers to secure rooms for themselves...
...Another problem lay in the sleeping sickness prevalent in Africa. Following the treaty settlements England, France, and Belgium agreed on a uniform and cooperative treatment of this difficulty. The Committee has rendered extensive assistance in Esthonia, Lithuania, Czeckoslovakia, Poland, and "Greece: and is now receiving many re quests from South America, particularly to help stamp out leprosy...
...headed by a member from Poland. The advantageous feature of the Committee is that it can call upon the experts of all nations, just as it asked an Englishman and a Frenchman, specialists on tuberculosis and diseases resulting from dust, to inspect the conditions in the gold mines of South Africa...
...Story. Joan was a landlubber- for the first eleven months of her life. After that she went aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, a copra-trading schooner in the South Seas, and stayed there until she could stand her trick at the wheel, pull on the ropes, man the pumps, spit, and cuss with the hardest of shellbacks. After an initial mishap with plug tobacco, she "chawed dried prunes which made grand spit," and spit two successful curves on a single windy day. Aged seven, she further qualified as able-bodied seaman by swearing, without repeating herself...