Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means of student exchange, student tours, summer and winter camps, international student conferences and so forth. These student exchanges and tours were organized in the beginning by the National Student Unions. As this new migration of students increased, it became necessary to coordinate their various activities; so the Warsaw Congress in 1924 decided to create a permanent Travel Bureau in London...
...continental branch in Paris. The latter was instituted especially for the convenience of the American tours which are to take place this summer. The Commission of Sports is in Paris: the Bureau of Scientific Motion Picture Films in Zurich, and a Bureau of exchange of books and publications in Warsaw...
...problem of text books is a very difficult one especially for students in Central and Eastern European countries with their low rates of exchange. An added complication is that we do not have the excellent library system in existence in the United States. Our Warsaw bureau has done a fine piece of work in providing a great number of students in these countries with the chief English, French, and German text books...
...question of the admission of Germany as a full member, presented the most difficult and delicate problem to the C. I. E. The only way to solve this problem at least temporarily was through an agreement of practical cooperation. Since the Warsaw Congress, this cooperation has been carried on in a very satisfactory way. Germany is now represented at all meetings of the C. I. E. and in view of the importance and excellent work of the Deutsche Studentenschaft, its representative has always been invited since then even to the executive meetings of the C. I. E. although Germany...
...last week Brown University conferred upon Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. Said President William H. P. Faunce: "He is a distinguished virtuoso and interpreter of the music of all peoples; leader of concerts in London, Madrid, Barcelona and Warsaw, who has crossed the seas to convey to prosaic America some of his own insight into the arts in the universal language of music." Conductor Koussevitzky speaks little English, could think of no fitting reply, instead lifted his bass violin, played eloquently Handel's Largo, the Andante from his own concerts...