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The International Plity Club will hold the first of its informal dinners in the Tower Room of Memorial Hall tomorrow evening at 6.15 o'clock. Mr. H. H. Powers, author of "The Things Men Fight For" and former professor of economics at Leland Stanford Jr., University, will speak upon the subject "Can a League Enforce Peace?" introducing a general discussion of the wisdom and present necessity of adopting a system of universal military service in the United States.
Mr. Powers graduated from Madison University in 1882, and received the degree of Ph.D. in 1894. Since then he has taught in Madison University, Oberlin, Leland Stanford and Cornell. In 1897, he became president of the Bureau of Universal Travel and has devoted most of his time to that organization since.
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