| Show i O COLLEGE OLLEGE MEN IN REFORMS The first fust national convention of the Columbian League was held on Saturday at the Continental Hotel This is an organization organization or- or s started by Professor Samuel Abbott of Milford Delaware for the purpose of enlisting enlisting- the interest of college men in the work of political reform and the purifying of political methods Professor Abbott presided at the meeting meeting meet meet- ing ling and Rev Walter Vrooman was chosen T a secretary Correspondence was read from forty colleges and universities expressing 1 interest and enthusiasm in the work and endorsements were received from fifty i Professors of Political Economy Notices 1 were also received that local organizations had been formed in twenty-four twenty colleges j the largest being in the University of Utah j jat 1 at Salt Lake City A committee to complete organization and draft a constitution was appointed consisting of Professor Abbott Rev Walter Vrooman Dr William Romaine Newbold of the University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania Vassal C. C W. W Carrol Wilbur Estes 1 I The second national convention will beheld be beheld held in the chapel of the University of Pennsylvania on the day of April at atio 10 io a. a m. m Representatives of the municipal municipal municipal pal bodies and of the colleges and universities universities universities are expected Philadelphia Philadelphia Ledger |
