Word: wilson
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Professor F. W. Taussig '79, chairman of the Federal Tariff Commission, was directed last week by President Wilson to proceed abroad for service in connection with the peace negotiations in Paris, and has already sailed. The Commission has made a study of the tariff relations between the United States and other countries, and it is assumed that Professor Taussig will be asked to advise the American representatives in regard to the commercial features of the treaty...
...Charles Wilson Killam was appointed by the Corporation Acting Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Chairman of the Council of the School of Architecture. The Corporation has also announced the selection of M. Lucien Levy-Bruhl, Exchange Professor from France for the first half...
...League of Nations Society is being reorganized to form a discussion group for the purpose of considering the recently formulated League Covenant. Dr. G. G. Wilson, Professor of International Law at the University, will lead the first meeting of the group on March 19, at a place to be announced later. Professor A. B. Hart '80 will conduct the discussion at the second meeting which is to be held soon after the spring vacation. Twenty members of the University have thus far signified their intention of becoming regular attendants at the discussions. Any others who wish to join the group...
...continued, "bear a larger responsibility in respected to the guidance of reconstruction than those of any of the foreign colleges. In the first place, America has lost fewer of her young men than any other country engaged in the war, and also it is to her, as Mr. Wilson said recently in his Boston speech, that Europe looks for leadership in the present era of reconstruction...
...draft for a League of Nations which was brought over here by Mr. Wilson on his hurried trip was hastily thrown together and so clumsily phrased that even he cannot interpret clearly what it means. Comparatively few American citizens have read the draft at all, and so far as the American public is concerned, aside from the debates in the Senate and some critical discussion in the press, there has been no attempt to make clear just what effect any one of the twenty-six articles will have either upon the future of the United States or upon the future...