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THE PRINCETON STUDENT CONFERENCE

Y ES, "East is East, and West is West," but the twain can meet,
for during the week-end of December 11 there gathered at
Princeton, N . J., students f r o m two hundred and f i f t y colleges,
representing every section of the United States. This National
Collegiate World Court Conference, called by the Senior Coun-
cil of Princeton university, had two purposes: first, to express
the mature undergraduate opinion of the United States on the
W o r l d Court; and second, to consider the formation of a per-
manent organization through which undergraduate opinion on
national and international affairs may be effectively expressed.

Student interest all over the country had been aroused on
the question of the entrance of the United States into the
W o r l d Court before the Conference met. A f t e r hearing a debate
in which the Hon. I r v i n L . Lenroot, U . S. Senator f r o m Wiscon-
sin, took the affirmative view and the Hon. Clarence Darrow of
Chicago the negative; meeting in discussion groups with such men
as Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Gen. Henry T . Allen, Commander of the
Rhine A r m y of Occupation, and Henry L . Stimons, Secretary
of W a r under T a f t ; and discussing the issue pro and con in an
open forum, the Conference passed the following resolution:

Whereas, We, the delegates of these two hundred and fifty
institutions of higher learning in the United States of America,
desire to hasten the security of peace in the world and f o r all
peoples,

Be i t resolved, That we advocate to the President and the
Senate of our country adherence to the Permanent Court of
International Justice under the so-called Harding-Hughes-Cool-
idge reservations.

This decision was made free f r o m the influence of propa-
ganda of any kind and represented the result of thought and
careful deliberation on the merits of both sides of the question.

I n carrying out its second purpose, the delegates to the Con-
ference voted in favor of the establishment of a National Feder-
ation of the Students of the United States of America, to be per-
manently organized within a year on the basis of a survey made
of the colleges and detailed plans worked out through an Execu-
tive Committee. This committee consists of two representatives