Notes and News on International Educational Affairs Author(s): Mary L. Waite Source: The Journal of International Relations, Vol.

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NOTES AND NEWS ON INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS

1. Signposts of popularity of English in of peace Peace Union, The Northern societies composed and Denmark, at a congress held in Copenhagen Sweden, Norway on July 1 and 2, 1921, adopted a resolution expressing as its opin? ion that the English language should be adopted as the interna? tional language of the world. one to hear that Latvia, American students will be interested the first of the new Baltic States, has decided to make English and schools. Eng? foreign language to be taught in its university lish, therefore, henceforth will take a very important place in the of this new State. education of the has shown its appreciation The Rumanian Government it a com? value of the English language by a regulation making learn In order that Rumanians may pulsory subject in all lyc?es. invited Professor the Government about English, something to spend a co-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, Craigie, few weeks in Rumania last summer to organize a pioneer summer and to lecture on English. in Transylvania school for English on a phonetic basis has that decided spoken English Japan that the It is realized schools. be taught in her State must and so? both commercially handicapped, Japanese are seriously to speak the English language, cially, owing to their inability although they can read and write it more or less fluently. at Univer? Mr. Harold E. Palmer, lecturer on spoken English has been linguistic adviser to the appointed sity College, London, in and sailed for Tokyo of Education, Japanese Department
January.

2. Student

Tours and Summer Sessions

Education has given its official of International The Institute which to a group of four tours to European Countries, sponsorship of for the summer of 1922 for the advantage have been organized in American and instructors students colleges and universities. to being under the general Each of the four tours, in addition of is also under the special auspices of the Institute, sponsorship as follows: in this the appropriate international country, society The English-Speaking to Great Britain, Tour Students' Union; de 1'Alliance Fran?aise; to France, Federation Tour Students' Students' Tour to Italy, The Italy America Students' Society; American-Scandinavian The Tour to the Scandinavian Countries, Foundation. 558

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The underlying purpose of the Students' Tours has been stated "It is my belief foremost diplomatists: thus by one of America's than the that no factor in international peace counts for more and sympathy by the peoples of understanding enjoyed mutually two nations, and that no factor creating such sympathy and under? of visits by those counts for more than the exchange standing young men and women who are still in their educational period of the future." and who are charged with the stewardship The under the general Tours have been organized Students' super? of the following: Dr. of Advisers vision of a Board composed of of International the Institute Director P. Duggan, Stephen Frank Aydelotte, American Sec? chairman; President Education, Dr. S. P. Capen, Scholarship Trustees; retary of the Rhodes on Education; Council of the American Director Mr. Paul D. of the Italy America John President Society; Professor Cravath, of the American University Union in Eu? W. Cunliffe, Secretary former Commissioner of Education of rope; Dr. John H. Finley, chairman of the of New York State; Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve, on International of the American Relations Associa? Committee of the tion of University women; Mr. Hamilton Holt, President Mr. William Fellowes Mor? American-Scandinavian Foundation; of the Italy America Committee gan, chairman of the Executive General of the Vice-president Society; Mr. Frank D. Pavey, the Honorable de l'Alliance Fran?aise; Federation George W. chairman of the board of directors of the English Wickersham, Speaking Union. 3. Summer Sessions in Foreign Universities

summer session for foreign students of the Uni? The eleventh 19. The aim is to versity of Madrid will be held July 8 to August offer to foreigners who are engaged in teaching or studying Spanish an opportunity of extending their knowledge by means of lectures and practical in their respective sub? classes, given by specialists at this session, of Americans the attendance jects. To facilitate of the Institute of International the Instituto de las Espanas with which the American Association of Teachers of Education, is planning a second trip to Spain this year. Spanish cooperates, of Sr. Joaqu?n Ortega of the Uni? The party under the direction on of Wisconsin, will sail on the Steamship Mauritania versity June 27. will be given the group to see not Special opportunities to the ordinary is accessible only what tourist, but also many intimate and interesting life. Arrangements aspects of Spanish for week-end and visits about Spain have been made excursions of well-known under the direction experts. of a One of the outcomes of the war has been the establishment summer in the Palace of Fontainebleau. The school of music of some of the most eminent faculty of the school is composed Instruction connected with the French Conservatoire. muscians is given in harmony, organ, piano, violin, harp, cello, singing, com? of music, French position, accompaniment, history conducting,
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includes such distinguished list of professors etc. The diction, teachers at the Paris men as M. Paul Vidal and M. I. Philipp, and Pierre Albert Wolff and M. Andre Hekking, Conservatoire du de Theatre de l'Op?ra Comique ex-regisseur general Chereau, The school opened for the first time in the summer of 1921, Paris. The French Govern? students were enrolled. when 85 American the Fontainebleau that students has arranged ment attending School shall receive a 30 per cent reduction on the steamers of the French Line, while the price charged for board, tuition and lodging as to place the school within the reach has been made so moderate trained musicians feel that only thoroughly of all. The directors and teachers can profit by this short summer course. Summer For the past sixteen years there has been a University School at Florence (Universita Estivi di Firenza) where courses for and Art have Literature in Italian History, Language, foreigners School was kept alive during the This University been offered. This year's efforts of its friends. war only through the persistent and prac? 16 to September session August 30, includes theoretical the Works of Dante, History tical courses in the Italian Language, There of Italian Art, and Italian History, especially of Florence. in Florence and to the and galleries will be visits to museums and Umbria. Prof. Bruno Roselli and principal towns of Tuscany of Vassar College will take a group of Prof. Elizabeth Haight the University Summer to Italy to attend students American the voyage only the Italian language School at Florence. During will be spoken among the group and a part of each day will be to Before proceeding to intensive devoted study of the language. the group will visit the important cities and hill towns of Florence in each place a special study of the important his? Italy, making St. in Padua, leader or period. torical or artistic Viz., Giotto at Sienna, early university life at Bologna. Catherine last year, of Mexico The National put into operation University in the students for the first time, a Summer School for American Government In launching this plan the Mexican City of Mexico. of its universities and is striving to bring about a wider recognition States has sent students to the Universities The United colleges. but the Summer and Germany, of England, Belgium France, of the United the first real representation Session of 1921 marked in Another in any Mexican States express purpose university. these summer sessions is to eradicate any wrong impres? holding culture and sions which Americans may hold concerning Mexican the two and to promote a greater friendship between civilization The faculty of the Summer Session is composed of the republics. are graduates of of whom scholars of Mexico, foremost many institutions of the and other well-known Columbia Harvard, Pedro Enriquez Urena, a graduate of the Univer? United States. will be University, sity Salamanca, Spain, and of the Columbia will be given in Spanish Instruction the director of the session. and Mexi? and Conversation; Spanish, Latin American Phonetics, as well as a course in can Literature, Art, Archaeology, History,

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and Methods. to places Excursions Commercial Correspondence of historical and artistic to in the country and visits interest museums and ancient buildings of the city and its environs will be organized. The dates of the 1922 session are July 12 to Septem? ber 9. Free transportation from the border to Mexico City is furnished all students by the Government and an effort is being made to make all expenses connected with the course as low as possible. 4. Fellowships The for Foreign Study

of University British Federation is offering a Women of the value of ?300 to enable the holder to carry on Fellowship a year's research or post-graduate study in some country other than her own during the Academic year 1922-23. Studentship for research

offer The Governing Body of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to a Research in Student residence at the College commencing of the annual value of ?150, which October 1922, a Studentship shall be tenable for two years and renewable, but only in excep? for a third year. The Studentship will be tional circumstances, and applications of October awarded at the beginning should be sent so as to reach the Master of Emmanuel (The Master's Lodge, not Emmanuel later than Septem? College, Cambridge, England) ber 18. The (<Fondation Universitaire." The surplus funds remaining for Relief at the time in Belgium in the hands of the Commission of the Armistice have been used for the basis of a fund, known as which is to promote education and the "Fondation Universitaire," in many ways. This fund was first tempo? research in Belgium in 1919 and made into a national fund. rarily constituted 24 scholar? We find that 62 loans have been made to students; in American and two to universities, ships given to Belgians in European colonial doctors in Brazil; three scholarships Belgian 10 grants varying from 1000 f. to 15,000 f. to Belgian universities; scientists to enable them to pursue their researches under the best and 3 grants for research work to students. Grants conditions, to students' homes in the four Belgian uni? have also been made to the School of Mines and to two other scien? inMons, versities, besides grants of 500,000f. each to the Universities tific institutions, for technical of Brussels and Louvain equipment. of scientific works is also furthered The publication by the of seven scientific works has already The publication Foundation. The receive a subsidy. been added, and 19 scientific periodicals is to edit scientific works direct, and it has started a Foundation review and a club for young men who have studied quarterly of scientific this it has paid for the illustrations Besides abroad. to It has still another to pursue?namely, function articles. A com of teaching regarding infant welfare. favor the extension

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to deal with this subject. has been appointed The Foun? is now housed in a building it has acquired in Rue d'Egmont and which will contain a lecture hall, meeting room, a Brussels, for and and studies in students Brussels. foreign professors library, of University Women The American Association has made the following awards:
Fellowship and A.M. University 1921. Major subject,

Committee

on

Fellowships,

Memorial Freeman Palmer The Alice N. Raymond, A.B. Dr. Dora Columbia Ph.D. University, The

of Texas, History.

1917;

and Lecture Research Berliner Sarah Fellowship B. Howland, Ph.B. Dr. Ruth and Syracuse University, 1908; Ph.M. Ph.D. M.B.L. 1920. Syracuse 1909; University, Major Yale, subject, Biology. Women Association American of Universitij A.B. Miss I. Fraiken, Wanda University Columbia 1917; Candidate University, Major English. subject, Julia C.G. Piatt Memorial E. Sinclair, A.B. Dr. Mary 1903; Ph.D. University matics. European Fellowship of Minnesota, 1909; A.M. for Ph.D. at Columbia.

The

The

Fellowship of Chicago, 1900; A.M. University Oberlin, of Chicago, 1908. Mathe? Major subject,

The

to of Latin Latin-American Amer, (for a native Fellowship country in the U. S.) study a native of Porto Miss Maria Teresa Rico. She had one year Mora, of preparation for her medical at Goucher studies and one College of Pennsylvania. at the University her She will probably complete of Pennsylvania in the Woman's Medical next year. training College this Fellowship this year. She holds Gamma Phi Beta Social Service Fellowship Dr. Margaret of California, T. Hodgen, B.L. 1913; 1915-16 University of 1917-18 graduate graduate student, University California; student, of Social Columbia and Bureau New School University, Research, of Municipal 1920-22 of of Research the Fellow ; University University and California for the Ph.D. 1918-19 Research candidate degree; on Women New York State Committee in Industry, and Secretary, Bureau Research of Women in Industry, New York State Secretary, Industrial Educational National 1919-1920, Secretary, Commission; Union Women's Trade Economics. League. Major subject, A.B., 1918, and A.M., the Sorbonne, 1921-22; Lettres de l'Universit? of 1919, University for the candidate de Paris. Major

The

The Boston Alumnae Fellowship Miss L. Mackay, Dorothy at student California; of Doctorat es degree subject, History.

The Rose Sidgwick Memorial is to be awarded later to a British Fellowship woman of graduate in an American for graduate standing study or university. award is made The of the college by a committee British of University Federation Women.

these fellowships Except when otherwise designated, for study in any country. on Education The American announces Council awards of the scholarships and fellowships offered women by French institutions:

are available the following to American

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Twenty Catherine Alice M. Gertrude Baldwin* Bovard Braun* Senior

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Lyc?e at Scholarships the Horace

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Mann

School,

New

York

City
Junior Senior at Northwestern at the Horace University Mann School, New York

City
Alice D. Brown Clement Besse M. Lorana Foote at Beloit College at the University of Oklahoma Sophomore at Carleton Junior College at Denison Junior University at Leland Stanford Jr. University Sophomore Central Buffalo Hutchinson School, at Cornell University Sophomore Mann at Horace School Senior at Trinity Senior College at Swarthmore College Sophomore at Monmouth College Sophomore at Union Senior University at Smith College Sophomore at University of Wisconsin Sophomore of Michigan at University Junior at Cornell University Sophomore of Wisconsin at University Sophomore Senior at ?cole Senior Senior Senior Senior Normale at at at at de Saint Germain-en-Laye

Thelma R. Gibbs
Grill Margaret R. Harvey* Constance Katherine Keiper Janet Kellicott* G. O'Donnell Mary Pitkin Margaret Gertrude Rodgers Marie Rutledge Celia Spalter

Heyltje

Stewart

Frances Swain Natalie Walker Lilian Wengler Five Fellowships

L. Buck Genevi?ve Cowen Eleanor Louise A. Mohn M. Niven Gertrude Grace Sproull Two Mary Atkinson Fellowships

Kalamazoo College RadclifTe College Mills College The Women's College University Sup?rieure

of Brown

Uni?

versity at Miami Senior at ?cole Normale

de S?vres

Margaret

Gilman

Grad. Student A.B. College, Peabody George Stu? Southwestern University; Presbyterian 1921-22 at Toulouse dent France, University, Candidate and A.M. A.B. College. Bryn Mawr at Bryn Mawr for the Ph.D. College degree University Fellowship at Toulouse

Augusta

E.

Galster

of of Illinois; A.M. A.B. University University in Carola the student Illinois. Graduate of Social Graduate Woerishoffer Department and Social Bryn Mawr. Economy Research; of for the Ph.D. Candidate University degree,

Illinois

American

Field

Service List

Fellowships of Awards?1922-23

for

French

Universities

Lloyd P. Bradley
Arthur James P. Coe A. Evans

E. Gowen Lancelot L. Hagen Julian Julian E. Harris

1917 B.S. California, 1920 B.A. California, B.S. 1918; Har? Wisconsin, 1920 vard, M.D. B.A. 1916 California, B.A. West 1919; Virginia, B.A. 1921 Oxford, B.A. North Carolina, 1917; 1920 M.A. Columbia, college in the fall.

Agriculture History Medicine Architecture Law Romance Languages

[ Prepared

to enter

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John R.

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Johnson Illinois,

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B.S. A.B. B.A. 1919; 1922

AFFAIRS
Chemistry Political Romance Languages Psychology Science

M.A.

1920 1921

L. Johnson William J. G. C. LeClercq Morris S. Vitelas

Columbia, California,

1920; M.A. 1918; 1921

Pennsylvania, M.A. 1919; Alternates

B.A. Ph.D.

1. Urban 2. Richard 3. Robert

T. Holmes P. McKeon L. Muckley

Pennsylvania, Harvard, Columbia,

M.A. B.A.

B.A. 1920; 1921 and M.A.

Romance Languages

1920

Philosophy
Political Science

U.

4. Charles 5. Henry 6. Max 7. Harold 8. Charles

E. E.

Locke Conklin

of Chicago, Ph.B. 1920; Columbia 1920 towards M.A. B.A. California, 1916;M.D.

Medicine English
Economics

1920; Brussells
B.A.

1921

Cornell,

1916

1915;

M.A.

J. Wasserman F. Richards R. Bagley

B.A. 1917; Illinois, Cornell, M.A. 1921 B.A. U. of Cincinnati, 1916; M.A. 1920 1917; Ph.D. and B.A. N.C., Trinity, B.A. M.A. 1915; Oxford,

Physics
Romance Languages

1921

9. Francis 10. Gerald

S. Haserot D. Sanders

Columbia, Wofford,

B.S. B.A.

and M.A. and M.A.

1921

Philosophy English

1918 Students7 Dinner

5. Foreign The Chamber dinner on March

of Commerce of the City of Philadelphia gave a to 400 foreign Hotel 9, at the Bellevue-Stratford and the colleges and schools of Philadelphia attending students, were and of these, countries Fifty-four vicinity. represented, China led with 71 men and women attending the 10 Philadelphia include the Pennsyl? Institutions having foreign students, which Medical Women's vania, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore, and of Pharmacy Textile College, College School, Philadelphia Jefferson Medical College. 6. Proposed National Union of English Students

A movement has recently been set on foot to link up the students and Welsh Universities in a National Students' in all the English to represent their interests and organize their cooperation Union, bodies of other countries. with The aims of this the student are two-fold : ideal, for improving the mutual under? cooperation classes of the future in all standing and goodwill of the educated to create opportunities for wider education lands; and practical, corre? international of scientific through information, exchange and easier foreign travel and study. Several confer? spondence, ences of students have been held this year to discuss the project and during the University term now beginning its definite adop? The Union in the different Universities. tion will be proposed

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out set up a permanent head office and bureau, would carrying a very extensive to students. The In? of services programme has already admitted of Students the Confederation ternational Union to membership. Seventeen other English prospective have nations European joined the Confederation. 7. American has reached Word in the British Isles follows:
University University University University of of of of

Students

in British

Universities

that there are 460 Americans the Institute 1921-22 as in engaged study for the year,
57 1 72 1

Cambridge. Liverpool. London. Manchester.

University of Oxford (144Rhodes Scholars). 1 Dublin, Trinity College.

1 of Aberdeen. 20 of Edinburgh. 1 of Glasgow. of Wales, College Aberystwyth. of N. Wales, Bangor... College and students doing graduate 76

228

University University University University University Professors London._

1 1 research work in

460 8. International Educational Conferences

conference held under the auspices The inaugural educational on August of the Pan Pacific Union, at Honolulu assembled 1, in session until August 24. The conference 1921, and remained was summoned by the United States Federal Bureau of Washing were addressed to the to and invitations cooperation requesting on Around of the Pacific Ocean. nations governments bordering the shores of the Pacific, the ocean of the future, dwell more than half of mankind, in 22 distinct nations and separated organized distrust. from one another by artificial barriers and congenital The Pan Pacific Union seeks primarily by educational agency to There were broaden their view of the Pacific and its problems. New from present fully accredited Philippines, delegates Korea, Zealand, Canada, India, Australia, Russia and the South American The conference was unique in scope and personnel, Republics. and the papers and discussions reached such a high plane of interest and possessed such international that participation significance was broadly in the proceedings and gave new ap? educational A very to a large number of educational proaches problems. feature of the Conference valuable consisted of the facilities pro? for investigating vided the delegates the great political problems of the Pacific and to gain first-hand from experts information as: Pacific Disar? capable of dealing with such salient questions in Racial Problems of Hawaii, mament, Immigration Japanese California, Yap Cables, The Shantung Spheres of In Question,

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of Korea in the Japanese Empire, terest in China, Position Pacific of the Philippines, in Siberia, Independence Japanese Mandates, etc. Power in the Pacific, Private in China, Naval Open Door at which for the benefit of delegates the sessions were arranged of a particular nation would give a frank presenta? representatives As these dis? tion of political from their view-point. problems cussions were confidential and closed to the press, and as the experts in their special provinces, speakers were fully accredited a rare opportunity was afforded of gaining insight into these vital
matters.

In September, Students' 1921, an International Congress was of the universities held in Mexico the City. Although principal to the Congress, which world were invited to send representatives was planned by the Mexican Federation of Students in honor of the the Hispanic of their national first centennial independence, dominated the session by an overwhelming element American A number of resolutions were adopted with regard to majority. of university the attitude freedom of opinion among students, social and international students towards economic, problems, and were of the students' movement. the extension Representatives sent to Europe to establish branches of the International Students' and Austria. in Spain, France, Federation Italy, Germany a conference of eastern men's In November colleges and uni? the steps to determine versities was called at Princeton University an interest among the college students to be taken in stimulating on the Limitation of of the East in the Washington Conference of a number Almost Armament. representatives simultaneously, conferences These of women's colleges met at Vassar College. of representa? were shortly followed by a convocation in Chicago with student bodies totalling tives of 225 colleges and universities, of a some 300,000 in the formation resulted which students, for the the National Student Committee national organization, Uni? of Armament. Charles Denby, Limitation Jr., of Princeton was made pres? versity, nephew of Secretary of the Navy Denby, Harvard and John Rothschild, ident of the organization, 1921, the Conference the Washington chairman. executive During student opinion Student Committee National sought to educate to college It supplied the issues before the Conference. upon on the Conference articles by recognized weekly publications It J. Palmer and William Hard. including Frederick authorities, at which reso? and mass meetings, discussion meetings stimulated lutions were adopted with regard to the work of the Conference. Student on February from the National 20, a delegation Finally, to President and presented to Washington went Committee, stu? to crystallize a report on the Committee's attempt Harding and Far Eastern dent opinion on the armaments problems and, on the basis of resolutions adopted by a number of independently an expression of opinion to the effect colleges and universities, should be ratified as that the treaties signed at the Conference of armaments "definite by interna steps toward the limitation

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and that the United States should participate tional agreement'7 in the Genoa Conference. was held in Manila Educational The Far Eastern Congress The Educational in February. the first week Congress during from Far Eastern educators to Manila many prominent brought between educa? cooperation countries, which helped to promote tional efforts of the Insular Gov't, religious bodies and private institutions. of unusual international A gathering significance will be held It is the eleventh conference at Peking, China, April 4 to 9, 1922. of the Christian Student of the World's composed Federation, the world and contain? Student Christian Movements throughout in and professors of nearly 200,000 students ing a membership or unions in more than 2500 universities Associations Christian of higher learning. from and colleges, and institutions Delegates more than thirty nations will attend the conference. Tsing Hua offered its buildings and facilities College, Peking, has generously of the and the entertainment for the sessions of the Conference of the conference, Dr. John R. Mott, In speaking delegates. of the Federation, Chairman says: "It would be difficult to over? of having such a conference meet at state the extreme importance in Far Eastern affairs and in the relations this fateful moment between Orient and Occident." elements which give the Peking meeting In discussing additional some in respects than any of its ten predeces? greater significance of the New China, as of sors, Dr. Mott points out that "students no other country, are today streaming out over the world, and are of the modern to the voices and demands most age. responsive at home, not Chinese students to impression, popular Contrary simply those who are studying abroad or who have studied abroad, are keenly interested and concerned in international and questions relations. international and America While every nation of Europe, North virtually and Africa, will be repre? and parts of South America Australasia, it will be predominatingly Asiatic. sented at the conference, the the Federation Conference the weeks following During various student centers of China will be visited by international for the purpose of conveying of Conference delegates deputations of the Federation. to the students of China the Christian message on Moral Education will be The third international Congress of the held in Geneva July 28 to August 1, under the patronage in The first Congress was held in London Swiss Federal Council. in 1912. The subjects to be 1908 and the second at the Hague of discussed will be the International Spirit and the Teaching of Education. and the Solidarity History, of Independence of the Brazilian The celebration Centenary In connection with will be held in Rio de Janiero next September. held in there will be a series of conferences this great celebration of The nineteenth various Congress parts of South America. 20 to 30; and will be held in Rio de Janiero August Americanists it is expected will be held in the fifth Pan American Conference, in Chile the late about the autumn, probably beginning Santiago,

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the Chilean Government end of October, although a definite date or definite arrangements. announced 9. Visiting Professors

P. Porsild of Copenhagen and Dr. Morten Founder University, of the Danish at Disko, has Arctic Station Director Greenland come to the of his United States. The chief visit recently object is to meet American in his work. scientists who are interested While in the country he will lecture at a number of our leading and museums. is the author of Eskimo universities Dr. Porsild & record of stone monuments in Stone Rows in Greenland, Greenland. of Christiania Professor Christian Collin of the University will arrive in New York on April 18, and will visit a number of our Professor litera? universities. Colling principal work in English ture has been a study of Shakespeare of which he is the leading in the Scandinavian Professor Collin will be countries. exponent one of the speakers at Smith College at the Shakespearian Cele? bration on April 21. Nathan of the State Lutheran Church Soderblom Archbishop Foun? in Sweden has been invited by the American Scandinavian States in the fall. He will lecture dation to come to the United on "Wit and Humor in Martin at a number of our universities
Luther."

of Chile is Dr. Jos? Maria Galvez, a professor of the University of at the University this year as exchange lecturing professor on "Present Day Chile." the Dr. Galvez California is, perhaps, of South American He has been very culture. best interpreter of students and pro? in arranging for the interchange instrumental It is expected that States. fessors between Chile and the United in the United States before Dr. Galvez will visit other universities returning to Chile. of International of the Institute The Instituto de las Espa?as Education has invited Don Antonio Solalinde, professor of the to be its official lecturer for Centro de Estudios Hist?ricos, Madrid the year 1922-23. Dr. Solalinde will give two courses at the summer session of Columbia is a well-known He University. and will lecture on Spanish scholar among American Hispanists of Spain. and Life and Customs Literature, Philosophy of and Bosworth Professor Professor W. A. Craigie, Rawlinson at Oxford, but perhaps better known as one of the Anglo-Saxon inMarch. editors of the Oxford Dictionary, arrived in California Professor and Mrs. Craigie have been spending the past 8 months on their way around the globe. He has an visiting universities students research among English plan for promoting interesting Schools and hopes to visit universities whenever in our Graduate in his journey across the continent. possible, of the Royal Commis? Albert Mansbridge, Hon. M. A. a member and founder of sion on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge the Workers7 Educational and the World Association Association for Adult Education, has just finished a course of 8 lectures, given

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in Boston at the Lowell Institute Mr. Mans during March. of April and will bridge will be in New York during the month on extra-mural in that vicinity lecture at many of the universities
education.

of Vienna, who of the University Professore Joseph Stryzgowski on "The has just given a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute as exemplified of Art," has in the History Crisis in the Humanities to be the of America Institute been invited by the Archaeological Norton lecturer for this year. at St. Olaf head of the history department Dr. C. A. Mellbye, the has been during lecturing Minnesota, College, Northfield, Dr. Mellbye of Christiania. autumn semester at the University of Inter? is one of the fifteen university men sent by the Institute of learning. to lecture at European institutions national Education Education has of International This is the first time the Institute to any of the Northern sent a representative countries, and that is of the done in this case is largely due to the recommendation broad and Dr. Mellbye's Foundation. American-Scandinavian of the American commonwealth lucid comments on the upbuilding more especially in Nor? have been widely in the West, quoted papers. wegian Mary L. Waite, Institute of International Education.

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