COLLEGE SOCIALISTS TO MEET HERE IN JANUARY

Of special interest to college students are the proposed conferences of the Intercollegiate Department of the League for Industrial Democracy with headquarters at 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

The first of these conferences will be held in New York City on Saturday, December 29th, at 12 o'clock, at Our Cooperative Cafeteria, 54 Irving Place. Norman Thomas, Harry W. Laidler and Scott Nearing will participate in the discussion, but the main part of the conference will be a symposium by students on "The Collegian--Facing the Present Crisis".

A more extensive conference will be held in Boston and Cambridge from Friday, January 11, to Sunday, January 13, 1924. This gathering will begin Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock with a session at Boston University Theological Seminary on "The Church and Labor". The evening session, a dinner conference at the Harvard Liberal Club, will deal with the "Brainworkers and the Labor Movement". Speakers will be Professor Vida D. Scudder, Wellesley College; Dr. Leo Wolman, Research Adviser, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Roger N. Baldwin, American Civil Liberties Union, Stuart Chase, Director, Labor Bureau, Inc. Chairman: probably a Harvard professor.

Will Debate Socialism Here

The following morning will be given over to a discussion of "Social Thinking in American Universities", conducted by students; the afternoon to "Labor in Politics" and the evening to a debate in Emerson Hall, Cambridge, between an advocate and an opponent of socialism. The following morning a discussion will be held on "The Student and the New Social Order".

Other speakers planning to speak at various sessions are Norman Thomas, Paul Blanshard, Harry W. Laidler, Harry W. L. Dana. The following student representatives in the New England Colleges have been asked to tell of the situation in their respective institutions:

Talcott Parsons, Amherst College; Arthur Pollister, Bates College; Francis B. Cramer, Berkeley Divinity School; Harold F. Carr, Boston Theological School, Elmer W. Grenfell, Bowdoin College; Harold W. Landin, Clark University; Roland A. Gibson, Dartmouth College; D. T. Eaton, Episcopal Theological School; Norman E. Himes, Harvard University; F. M. Bass, International Y. M. C. A.; Frank Shaw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cara Cook, Mt. Holyoke College; Mary Ruth Schantz, Simmons College; Eva Freeman, Wellesley College; G. B. Appel, Yale University.

A third conference will probably be held in New York City on January 19th, immediately following the Bertrand Russell Dinner given by the L. I. D.

Further information regarding the conference may be obtained from the Intercollegiate Department of the L. I. D., 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City.