Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avoid friction among the Pacific powers by mutual understanding of their various points of view is the purpose of the recently founded Institute of Pacific Relations, according to Professor G. G. Wilson of the Law School, an active member of the Institute...
Founded a year ago, the Institute is essentially a conference involving consideration of the questions arising from the contact of Eastern and Western civilizations. Professor Wilson, who travelled to Honolulu last summer with 40 other delegates from the United States, explained the function of the organization to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...Members from ten different countries, numbering 135 in all, gathered at the 'cross-roads of the Pacific'," said Professor Wilson. "Everything from finances, resources and the tariff, to religion and race was considered. Members or groups of members drew up reports on problems with which they were familiar. These reports, were read to the assembly and were followed by a discussion...
...subject set forth by Professor Wilson was "Laws on Immigration for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Japan." It is a detailed treatise on the technical problems which confront the various nations, and sets forth the influences of race, population, resources, and climate which each of them has to consider in enacting immigration laws. It then goes on to offer criticisms and suggestions for the purpose of improving these laws...
Emil Ludwig is one of the foremost writers of biography today, already known in this country for his studies of Napoleon and Wilhem HohenzoHern. In this new book, prefaced by an introduction on the writings of history, he deals with nineteen men of genius, Frederick the Great, Wilson, Bismarck, Lenin, Da Vinci, Voltaire, Rembrandt, Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare, Goethe and eight others. In this work one will find Ludwig's theory of the causes and effects of the appearance of a world genius in human society...