Professor Henry Carrington Lancaster, director of the Continental Division of the American University Union, estimates that there will be four thousand American students in French universities and other institutions of learning this year. In September Professor Lancaster will be succeeded in the directorship by Professor J. D. M. Ford of Harvard University. The assistant director is Dr. H. S. Krans, who will be glad to give helpful information at the office of the Union, 173 Boulevard St., Germain, Paris.
The London office at 50 Russell Square offers similar facilities and arranges for students to obtain reading tickets for the British Museum Library, the Record Office, etc. Dean C. M. Gayley, of the University of California, will continue to act as director until September, when he will be succeeded by Professor R. M. Wenley, of the University of Michigan. The assistant director is Mr. R. H. Simpson, who has prepared a pamphlet "Guide for American Students in the British Isles" which may be obtained by application to the Secretary of the Union, "Professor J. W. Cunliffe, Journalism Building, Columbia University, New York city.
Students who are planning to visit Europe in 1926 will be interested in a Summer School which is being organized for American students at Trinity College, Dublin, in the summer of that year. Particulars may be obtained from Dr. Bernard, Provost, Trinity College, Dublin, who is to visit the leading American colleges this summer in connection with the project. This will be the first Summer School in the British Isles which will be organized on the American plan and for which a number of American . colleges and universities have 'already agreed to give credit to their students.