INTERCOLLEGIATE SOCIALIST SOCIETY TO CONVENE DEC. 28

The eighth annual convention of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society will be held in New York, N. Y., on December 28, 29 and 30. The convention will open with the executive session on Thursday afternoon, December 28, from 2.30 to 5.30 o'clock at Miss Stoke's Studio, 90 Grove street. The meeting will be called to order by J. G. Phelps Stokes, president. The reports of delegates and the organizing secretary will be read, and a discussion of chapter problems, methods of organizing and procedure of study chapters will follow.

A dinner will be given for the members of the executive committee and a few invited guests at the Rand School, after which they will attend a lecture by Professor Scott Nearing on "The Germs of War," at the Washington Irving High School. Following the lecture, a reception will be tendered to Mr. Nearing at the Rand School.

The executive session will continue on Friday morning, December 29, from 10 to 12.30 o'clock in Room 206, School of Journalism of Columbia University. The afternoon meeting will be held at the same place from 2 to 4.30 o'clock and will consist of the "Question Box," led by H. W. Laidler, who recently spoke before the University Socialist Club, and John Spargo. Jessie W. Hughan will preside.

On Friday evening at 6.30 o'clock, the annual dinner for all representatives will be held at 150 East 58th street. Tickets at $1.25 may be secured from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, Educational Building, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, N. Y., before 12 o'clock Thursday, December 28. The subject of the discussion which will be held at the dinner is, "What should be the foreign policy of the United States?" The main speakers will be Morris Hillquit, the representative of the American Socialist Party on the International Socialist Bureau; Gardner L. Harding '10, author of "Present-Day China," and an editor of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's "Chinese Republican," during the Chinese revolution; Willard D. Straight, of the International Corporation, who negotiated the American side of the Chinese loan, and Professor Vida D. Scudder, of Wellesley.

The convention will close with a third executive session to discuss alumni chapter problems at 90 Grove street, Saturday morning, December 30, from 10 to 12.30 o'clock.