STUDENTS GOING ABROAD OFFERED SPECIAL SERVICE

Information of value to every undergraduate or teacher who may be contemplating crossing to England or France for study, or some other reason, has just been received by President Hopkins from the American University Union in Europe. The communication, which strongly suggests that accommodations be arranged through the union by prospective travellers, is in part as follows:

The season is at hand when you or members of your staff or some of your alumni or graduate students may be coming to Great Britain for a Summer vacation or for study. The crowded condition of London makes it important that arrangements for lodgings be made in advance. The American University Union has arranged that the International Hospitality League and the English Speaking Union and similar bodies shall serve us by having (ists) of places in residential hotels and in homes, where paying guests may 'be 'received. Members of the Union giving us notice in advance, as definite as possible, may have reservations made for them.

You will be gratified to know that the work of this office is in increasing demand and that we are now prepared to register American University people upon their arrival, to afford a meeting place where appointments may be made with their friends, to handle their mail, to introduce them to British Universities and learned Societies and in short to be of general use as advisors concerning educational matters. Several teachers and a number of students have been placed in British Universities and corresponding British people in American institutions. The office has become, as it were, an educational Embassy and Consulate. It has unofficial but close relations with the American Embassy and Consulate. Many important educational questions are brought to the attention of the office ,by British as well as American educators. The idea of an international clearing house for University information and advice is being happily realized at this Universities Bureau House where the British and French Directors are under the same roof as this office. The common library containing the latest information concerning the Universities upon both sides of the water is beginning to be of much use.