The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
STUDENTS PLAN
BIG CONFERENCE
Representatives from Abroad
Coming to Ithaca
Congress.
WILL OPEN NEXT FRIDAY
Members of Foreign Delegation Later
VIII Spend Several Days in
This City.
WILL OPEN NEXT FRIDAY

Representative students from the uni
versities of Europe have been arriving
in the United States during the last two
weeks on their way to Ithaca, N. Y,
where, next Friday, the Eighth Inter-
national Congress of Students will be
held under the auspices OF the Cosmo-
politan Club OF Cornell University. Bos-
ton and New York have rendered these
young men hospitality. and have recog-
nized in them the envoys of an interna-
tional comradeship. Cornell will, for the
time being, as host OF the International
Federation of Students, be the capital
OF the world OF universities and colleges.
Philadelphia and Washington later will
entertain the delegates. They will ar
rive in Washington September IL, and
a committee under the general chair
manship OF Arthur Deerin Call, execu-
tive director OF the American Peace So
ciety. who is now at The Hague attend
ing the meeting of the Peace Congress,
will have charge Of the arrangements for
the entertainment OF the delegates here.
Other members OF the committee are d.
rector John Barrett, of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union; DIR. George F. Bowerman,
Daniel j. Callahan, DR.. Philander p.
Claxton, Angelo Cont, William Knowles
Cooper, DR.. W. NJ. Davidson, z. II.
Droop, the Rev. Paul Hickok, L. o.
Howard. Myron Jermain Jones, II. B.
F. Macfarland. S. n. d. North, George
w. White, and DIR. William c. Wood
ward.
Benefits FRr-ReachinE.
In harmony with the spirit OF the
congress. it is hoped that the impres-
sions received at the Nations Capital will
give the final touch OF world brotherhood
for which the cosmopolitan clubs have
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congress are far-reaching. Quite beyond
the evidences of scholarship and culture
OF the Old World universities is the spirit
of humanity and OF brotherhood which
promises defeat of race prejudices and
other bars to the progress Of interna-
tionaI peace
Preliminary arrangements for the en-
tertainment OF the students in Washing
ton. September 10 to Is, include seeing
Washington trip, a reception at the
Pan-American Union Building, trips to
Arlington, Fort Myer, and Mount Ver-
non, and a smoker at the University
Club.
Held biennially, the international con-
crosses have proved : tie OF vast impor-
tance to the leading nations. In the
United States the stuIeuts work for In
:ernationalIsm has centered III the Gus
mopolitan clubs Of the leading lnstitu-
items OF learning. South America, WI lie
not yet as thoroughly organized IN the
universities, has nevertheless shown its
interest in the studsn: movement by n
series of notable International congresses
Of American stuients-at MontCv ideo,
Uruguay, in 1895; It Buenos Ayres. AR
gentine, in 1910, and at Lima. Peru, tr
1872. At the last congress there was a
fair representation from the United
States, and the meetings deyLIoped plan
for still further improving the internal
tional relations between :he Latin
American countries and the bis sister
republic OF North America.
Cornell Club Active.
That the Cornell CosrnUpo itan Club was
chosen as the rallying point for the 1918
congress OF students would indicate that
this club has been especially active in
the work. Such Is the TACT. Other Uni
versities and colleges, however. have
striyen to place the student movement
on a solid international foundation
As the Cosmopolitan Club of Harvard
University and the Cosmopolitan. Club of
the University of Pennsylvania are to
figure prominently in the entertainment
OF the foreign students. these two or
canizations may be mentioned in pass
ing, although at the other universities m
less good work Is done 10 further the
movement.
Closely associated with the coming
congress are two other events that con-
cern cooperation among students. One
is the ninth annual conference OF the
east SEXTON OF the Chinese Students
Alliance OF America, likewise, 10 be held
at Cornell University the week preceding
the congress. The other event Is the
coming OF a party OF German students
on a tour Of the United States, and who
| will participate in the international con-
gress.
Tne general committee on organization
| Of the international congress is as fol
| lows: Carlos L. Locsin, chairman; Prof
George Young, Prof. w. w. Rowles, DIR
George ". Nasmyth. Louis p. Lochner
r. c. Candee. the Rev. c. w. Heizer
| Frederick Robinson, A. p. Evans, III. a
| Gonzales, J. C. Faure. and G. de Grassi
| There is a special committee, composea
Cf Edwin d. Mead, chairman. Boston
| Harry Z. Edmunds, New York; Arthur
Deerin Call, Washington; George e
NItzscne, FnIIadeIpnIa, ana John B. Om
stead, Buffalo.