The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-12-20
CONVENTION OF COLLEGE
SOCIALISTS.

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What promises to be the largest
and most enthusiastic gathering of
college students in socialism ever as
sembled in the United States will be
the fourth annual convention of the.
intercollegiate Socialist Society to be
held in New York City, December 81
and %.
The convention will be opened by
President ]. c. Phelps Stokes of the
society, Friday afternoon at 2:30 p. m.
at the studio of Miss Helen Phelps
Stokes, 80 Grove street, New York
city. At this session reports will be
given from the more than fifty under.
graduate and a half dozen graduate
chapters of the society in the colleges
delegates from unorganized colleges
will also report the progress in their
institutions.
Friday evening the New York
chapter will give a reception to the
visiting delegates and friends at the
Finch school, 81 East 18th street,
New York city. There will be ad-
dresses by various of the members of
the executive committee, including
President Stokes, Mrs. Florence
Kelley, Mrs Jessie Wallace Hugan,
Miss Helen Phelps Stokes, Miss Jessie
Ashley, Ellis o. Jones, William
English Walling, Bouck White and
Harry w. Ladder, presiding. Miss
HELEN Keller has also been asked to
speak.
All the problems which the various
chapters have to face, methods of
organizing, increasing membership,
securing lecturers, publishing pamph-
lets and magazines, cooperating with
! on socialism, etc, will be discussed
by the delegates at the morning
session, Saturday morning, December
% at Miss Stokes studio.
Following this will come the ques-
ton box session, Saturday afternoon,
when the delegates will be given an
opportunity to ask questions on social
ism, it's theory and tactics of well
known opponents of the socialist
movement. Last year this session
was most animated and thought com
polling.
The grand finale will be the dinner,
Saturday night, subject "The New
Political Alignment" Prof. Thomas
c. Hail, of Union Theological Semin
airy, DIR. John C. Kennedy, the candi
date for governor on the socialis.
ticket in Illinois in 1912, and mana
ger of the Chicago World. Prof Ellel
Hayes, of Wellesley, and other promi
nent socialists and opponents of the
progressive movement will speak.
This dinner will be held at $50 /.
m. at Kalil's Restaurant.
At the dinner af the I. S. S. lat
year, over 500 were present, gradl-
| ates and undergraduates of 80 cd
| leges, and $50 were turned away. FSr
| any who remain in the city there vii
be an informal session, Sunday aftr-
! noon, at Miss Stokes studio, to TAX
over chapter problems and the Sub
ject of socialism generally.
The society anticipates about 60
undergraduate chapters by the tine
of the convention, last year the nun
Der was 38. During the past week,
organizations have been effected in
George Washington University of
Illinois, State College, Pennsylvania
and Utah and Kansas Agricultural
College.
Harry w. Ladder, organizer Of the
society, is making his first thp toI
Western colleges this DecembeG and
speaks as follows:
November 30, Philadelphia, Deem
Der 2, State College, p, December 3, |
Pittsburg, Pa, December 4, Wahing-
ton-Jefferson College, DecembT s. |
Marietta College, December 6, Ohio
State, December 7, Ohio Wesleyan, |
December 9, Ohio Northern, ecem-
Der II, University of Indiana, Iecem-
Der u, De Paw, December Is Pur-
due, December IA, University 4 iii
nois, December Is and 16, chicago,
December II, University Of Michigan,
December Is, Cleveland.