Prin. John Meigs, Ph.D.

Prof. Edward C. Moore, Ph.D., D.D.

Prof. W. W. Moore, D.D., LL.D.

Rev. Henry Mottet, D.D.

Pres. Francis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D.

Prof. Robert W. Rogers, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.G.S.

Pres. Frank K. Sanders, Ph.D., D.D.

Pres. Augustus H. Strong, D.D., LL.D.

Pres. W. W. White, Ph.D.

Prof. Henry B. Wright, Ph.D.

This list of councillors is being strengthened by the gradual organization of local faculty councils in the prominent institutions throughout the United States and Canada. It is doubtful whether there are many opportunities open to the members of the faculties of our North American colleges offering a wider sphere of personal influence than that which a vital faithful connection with this work affords.

The importance of this entire cause becomes significant when we realize that its influence has now gone out to at least eighteen different nations, which have entered upon this movement for bringing the Bible to the attention of college students. In a tour among the college men of India, China and Japan last year, I found that committees of educated men were already preparing courses for voluntary Bible study in their native languages, while similar systems of organization and national propaganda gave promise of far-reaching enterprises.

Already a number of larger institutions in North America are employing paid Bible secretaries. It is apparent that special secretaries will be demanded in a large number of institutions during the coming decade to take the leadership in this progressive work. In short we are only now upon the threshold of one of the most strategic and significant tasks ever undertaken for and by college men.

THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUBS IN

AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES.

By WILLIAM LEONARD SCHWARTZ.

ONE of the multiplying difficulties which surround the work of higher education in the United States has been the problem of giving the many foreign students proper opportunities to know the life of America, and to meet on an equal footing the representatives of other nationalities belonging to the same student body. The South American, Mexican, Porto Rican, and Filipino may form a Hispanic Club, held together by their common language, but such an organization has no relations with the Oriental Club, the Cercle Francais, or any of the ordinary social clubs. The Hindu or Korean may study in the average American college for four years and graduate holding the same prejudices as when he matriculated, while his American classmate may have not profited at all by his presence.

Such obstacles to a satisfactory understanding between members of the different nationalities and races were soon perceived by the broader-minded foreign students, who were as eager to tell the American of their culture as to learn of the civilization of other lands. Hence, as a result of these poor conditions, during the year 1903 an International Club was organized at Wisconsin University, Modesto Quiroga, an Angentine, organized the Cornell Cosmopolitan Club in 1904, and other clubs sprang up spontaneously at Michigan, Illinois, Purdue, Ohio State, and Chicago. Some of these clubs had at first no American members or limited their number strictly, and existed as purely social organizations, whose members sometimes roomed together, and sometimes quarreled and gave up their club houses. The knowledge of the existence of similar clubs reached the Wisconsin Club, and they were inspired to call a convention in 1907 at Madison with the purpose of affiliating the different clubs with one central bureau, and thus to carry forward a work of propaganda which would found more chapters and increase the benefits of the movement by giving it a wider field. All of these seven clubs were represented at this first convention, a constitution was adopted, and Louis P. Lochner, of Wisconsin, was elected the first president of the federation, which was named the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs.

Now a fairly uniform program was adopted by the different chapters, all of which decided to invite American members and to maintain a policy of offering educational lectures and open meetings at which women as well as men were invited to attend, irrespective of nationality. Faculty members, student, and outside lecturers intimately familiar with their subjects have made these meetings everywhere one of the greatest attractions of the organization. The clubs work to secure the well-being of the foreign student and

to secure him recognition from the American, and wherever local conditions permit are established in club rooms or houses. The second convention was held at Ann Arbor, where the delegates were the guests of the Michigan chapter, and here the decision was naturally made to pass from recognizing the value of good relations between the foreigners in America to the active part of endeavoring to push on the work of maintaining international peace and good will, and the Association was enrolled as a branch of the American Peace Society. Here, also, the first steps toward an affiliation with the European student societies were taken when a committee was elected to attend the students' convention at the Hague in 1909. Armed with many copies of the 1909 Cosmopolitan Annual, a well illustrated book of 150 pages, Louis P. Lochner, Albert H. Ochsner, and George Fulk, diplomatically profited by a disagreement between "Corda Fratres" (Brothers in Heart) and the Federation of French Students, patched up peace by the formation of an International Federation of Students whose motto should be "Corda Fratres," and came to a full understanding as to the position which the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs should hold in the new federation.

The third annual convention which closed on last Christmas eve at Cornell, Ithaca, ratified this work, and now the 1800 American members may claim fraternal relations with the 60,000 European students, and wear the same pin as a badge. At the time of the second convention Leland Stanford Jr. University, Iowa State College, Harvard, the University of Iowa, Missouri University, Northwestern University, and the University of Washington had organized chapters, and the third convention brought an equally phenomenal increase of membership, when the Oberlin International Club, the club at the Missouri School of Mines, the Pennsylvania Club, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Cosmopolitan Club, the Syracuse Club, the Ohio Wesleyan, Park College, and Yale Cosmopolitan Clubs were admitted to membership in the Association. The organization will commence the publication of a monthly magazine devoted to its interests, the present executive chapter is located at Illinois University, while Pennsylvania, Michigan and Leland Stanford chapters each hold vice-presidencies.

"What is Cosmopolitanism?" Prof. F. A. Fetter, a charter member at Cornell, defined it as "Democracy writ large." Quoting again, this time from Geo. W. Nasmyth, the retiring president of the Association, "Cosmopolitanism is something more than this. Democracy, even tho writ large, does not convey the idea of brotherly love, of sympathetic understanding, or service to mankind, for which cosmopolitans are known everywhere. We must add to this conception of cosmopolitanism the ideal of "Peace on earth, goodwill to men" for which it stands. Cosmopolitans believe that in bringing about a better understanding between men of differing nationalities, races, and religions, they are working in the most effective way to cleanse civilization from its deepest sin―the folly and guilt of war. Service to humanity is the ideal

of the Cosmopolitan Clubs, and it is this that gives such depth of meaning in the heart of every cosmopolitan to those prophetic words of Goldwin Smith. "Above all nations is humanity."

The organization has decided to extend itself even to those universities where there are no foreign students, provided such chapters remain true to the ideals of the Association. There are several clubs which work in sympathy with the movement but are not strong enough yet to join as chartered members, and a great increase in the number of clubs is expected as the enthusiastic alumni go out in the world carrying with them the memories of their own clubs.

A KINDERGARTEN SPORTING

REPORT

A Bonafide Letter from an Amherst Senior to his Six Year Old Sister Presents a Unique Account of an InterCollegiate Athletic Event.

AMHERST COLLEGE, AMHERST, MASS.,

Jan. 17, 1910.

Dearest Toodles:

I am writing this on the typewriter so that you can read it all by yourself. Be sure not to let mother or anyone else see a word of it! Why don't you write me a nice long letter and tell me all about your Christmas tree?

All Friday night and Saturday morning there was a great big snow storm here, just like the one you had in Montclair and everyone was afraid that the people would not be able to clean off the skating rink in time for the hockey game with Yale in the afternoon. When the time to begin came, tho, the ice was all clean and the snow was piled up many feet deep on all sides of the rink. As this was a specially big game, lots of the boys, brother Joe included, brought over little girls from Smith Primary School to see it. The game was a fine one, even if Yale did beat us five to three.

After it was all over the little Psi boys took their little Smith friends up to their lodge, and had some dancing there until supper time. Then the boys and girls, accompanied by the right number of nurses, called chaperones, went to the best cosy-corners in the house and had a nice supper served to them by their baby brothers, whose first names were all "Freshman.” Then, after everybody had eaten all the chicken patties, lettuce sandwiches, ice cream and cake, and coffee they could get, they went down to the skating rink again and tried to keep warm while they watched a potato race, and several other races. The rink was lighted up by strings of several hundred electric lights, and there was a big twenty-piece band. After the races were over there was a funny game of hockey between a team of Amherst little boys who called themselves the "Seven Deadly Sins" and another team who were dressed up in their sisters' clothes to look like the "Seven Sutherland Sisters." Of course the Seven Sisters, with brooms for hockey sticks, won by a large

score.

In between the races there was general skating by anyone who wanted to try it, but as my little girlie came from way down South where the cotton grows she was unable to skate and we went back to the lodge and danced for a little while. Just when we were having the best time the nurses said that the girls must stop and get ready to go back to the Smith Primary Schoolmy girl is in the First Grade-so we had to stop. When all the little children had their coats and mitties on, they and the nurses went down town to get