AMERICAN UNIVERSITY UNION IN EUROPE

On Saturday, October 20, there was opened the American University Union in Europe, for American college men and their friends in war service. The purpose of the Union is to provide at a moderate cost a simple club for college men, both graduates and undergraduates, who are in Europe for military or other service in the cause of the Allies. Another important feature will be an information bureau to aid American colleges, parents, and friends in securing information about college men in all forms of war service. Through this agency reports may be had on casualties, the sick and wounded may be visited, and a personal means of communication be established between those in America and their friends across the water.

The headquarters of the Union is the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris. This hotel, which has eighty bedrooms and forty baths, is centrally located on the corner of the Place de Theatre Franqais and the Rue de Richelieu. It has been rented for the year and will be the center for all American college men in Paris. Files of the leading American magazines, periodicals and newspapers will be kept in the reading room, and arrangements have been made for placing athletic facilities at the disposal of members in Paris on furlough. Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale, Princeton, the University of Virginia, Columbia, and the University of Michigan have already taken steps to provide bureaus in this Union to aid their own graduates, while the general officers of the Union will do all in their power for college men from institutions that have not started separate bureaus.

The Union has already opened a branch office in London at 16 Pall Mall East, S. W. 1, near Cockspur Street and Haymarket, S. W.

The plans for the Union were considered first at a meeting held in New York late in June. Representatives of fifteen of the leading American universities and colleges attended, and other institutions appointed delegates who were unable to attend. The meeting was called by Mr. Stokes, the Secretary of Yale University, which had previously officially voted to establish a Yale Bureau in Paris, but had later modified its plans in order to join in an undertaking that would make provision for all American college men.

The following officers and board of trustees were elected: Secretary Stokes, of Yale, chairman; President Hutchins, of the University of Michigan, vice-chairman; Trustee Henry B. Thompson, of Princeton University, treasurer; Roger Pierce, of Harvard University, secretary; President Finley, of the University of the State of New York; President Goodnow, of Johns Hopkins University; President Graham, of the University of North Carolina; Mr. John Sherman Hoyt (Columbia), nominated by the Y. M. C. A.; and Mr. Dwight W. Morrow (Amherst), nominated by the American Red Cross.

The forty-three institutions and two fraternities whose names are here given have signified their intention of joining the Union:

Amherst College. Bowdoin College. Brown University. University of California. Carnegie Institute of Technology. University of Chicago. Colorado State Teachers College. Columbia University. Cornell University. Dartmouth College. Delaware College. Denison College. University of Georgia. George Washington University. Harvard University. University of Indiana. lowa State University. Johns Hopkins University. Lafayette College. Leland Stanford Junior University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. University of Michigan. Michigan College of Mines. University of Minnesota. University of Missouri. University of the State of New York. University of North Carolina. Northwestern University. Ohio State University. Ohio Wesleyan University. University of Oklahoma. University of Pittsburgh. Princeton University. University of South Carolina. Vanderbilt University. University of Vermont. University of Virginia. University of Washington. Wesleyan University. Williams College. Worcester Polytechnic Institute. University of Wyoming. Yale University. Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. Psi Upsilon Fraternity.

The affairs of the Union in Paris are in the hands of an executive committee to which there have been elected: Professor George H. Nettleton (Yale), director; Mr. Van Rensselaer Lansing (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), assistant director; Professor Paul Van Dyke (Princeton) ; Professor Charles B. Vibbert (University of Michigan) ; Mr. Lewis D. Crenshaw (University of Virginia) ; Mr. J. H. Hyde (Harvard).

An Advisory Council has been constituted in Paris to consist of the following residents: Mr. Edward Tuck, Dartmouth '62, Chairman; Mr. James R. Barbour, Yale; Mr. Robert W. Bliss, Harvard; Mr. Lawrence Slade, Williams ; Mr. Persifor F. Gibson, Prince-ton ; Mr. Robert Arrowsmith, Columbia, and Mr. Alfonse D. Weil, Cornell.

The financial support of the Union is to be derived from college memberships and club memberships. The membership fees are $500, $250, or $100, according to whether the institution has over 10,000 graduates, less than 10,000 but more than 5,000, or less than 5,000 graduates. Payment of these membership fees entitles the graduates, undergraduates, and prospective students of the subscribing institutions to all the privileges of the Union. University clubs and other organizations of American college men will be invited to take out club memberships, the fee for which is $100, thereby obtaining the same privileges as are obtained through college membership. Honorary memberships have been extended to the United States Military Academy at West Point, and to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.