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CONVENTION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE LIBERAL CLUB STARTS TWO-DAY SESSION AT ONE

Purpose of Convention is to Effect an Intercollegiate Organization "To Cultivate Student Opinion"

Today

1.30-2.00.--Registration and reception of delegates. Arrangements for hospitality will be made.

2.00-3.30--The chairman of the Organizing Committee will open the Convention in the Living Room. Dean L. B. R. Briggs will extend welcome to the delegates. The chairman and secretary of the Convention will be appointed from the floor, after which the chairman will make a brief speech. The opening address will be by Walter Lippman '10, of the New Republic. Miss Anne F. Mirkin of Tufts Medical School and H. B. Davis ocC., will answer the address from the floor.

3.30--5.00.--Discussion of the name and purpose of the organization, of ways and means, and of a constitution will take place in periods of one-half hour each.

6.00.--Old-fashioned New England supper will be served in the Living Room for $2.00 a plate. The profit will be devoted to the relief of fellow students in famine-stricken lands.

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The subject for the evening discussion will be: "The Collegian Looks at the World."

Speakers on this subject will be: Walter G. Fuller, Associate Editor of The Freeman: President Charles W. Eliot '53: Donald Winston, of Young Democracy : Francis Neilson, Editor of The Freeman: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, authoress: Andrew Furuseth, President of the International Seaman's Union of America: Edwin F. Ladd, U. S. Senator from North Dakota; Lucien Price, author of "Immortal Youth." There will be a brief student reply to each speaker.

Tomorrow

10.00 to 11.30.--Reports form Committees will be read and action on reports taken.

11.30 to 12.00.--Election of a Provisional Student Executive Committee will take place (followed by a meeting of the Committee for purpose of co-opting graduates and Faculty members for the Committee).

12.00 to 2.30.--Luncheon in the Trophy Room. Toastmistress, Miss Muriel Moris, Wellessley, short speeches will follow by Roger N. Daldwin '05, on "The Social Function of Revolt": Augustus G. Dill '08. on "Liberalism and the Negro"; H. W. L. Dana '03, on "universities and the Workers"; John Haynes Holmes '02, subject not announced; Harry W. Ladiler, on "The Task Ahead": John F. Lewis Jr., on "Commercialization"; Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch, subject not announced; J. W. Morris, on "the English Parallel"; Henry Mussey, on "Making Congress Servo the People".

2.30. to 3.30.--Announcement of full Provisional Executive Committee (followed by meeting of the Full Committee for the purpose of choosing officers).

There will follow a discussion from the floor of Policies and Plans.

3.30 to 4.30.--The report of the Executive Committee will be read. The closing address bill be by H. N. MacCracken '05, President of Vassar.

4.30.--Tea will be served in the Quiet Room

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