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Show 294 music by their native composers. project on the canvas pictures of their native land, and discuss the relation of their state to other powers. ;\t times they also recite masterpieces of their country‘s literature. thus affording the members an opportunity of hearingr many different languages. in the course of these national nights the members get a better insight into the mode of living. customs and viewpoints of people of different race than they can ever gain from the colored accounts of travelers in foreign lands. This broadening influence has taught them to have sympathy with their fellmvman's religion, however divergent from their own. with his political opinion, however contrary, with his social rank. however unequal, with his nationality, however different. .\ significant step was taken by the association at its second annual convention last Christmas, when it decided upon an affil» iation with the International Federation of Students of Europe, til \l\\\\tt ti '" better known as Corda Fratres. This organization, which has a membership of sixtyithree local chapters or consulates represent- ing fifteen thousand students, aims to do for college men at Euro- pean universities what the i-\ssociation of Cosmopolitan Clule endeavors to accomplish in America. By the proposed affiliation the nineteen chapters of our association will join the sixty-three consulates of Corda liratres, and the same rights and privileges that are now accorded members of the one organization will be extended to members of the other. The work will thus be on an international basis, and the possibilities for effective co-operation unlimited This summer an international convention of students will be held at The Hague. Members of Corda Fratres and of our association will then unite in formulating a program by which the universities of the Orient and of Latin America may be interested in the movement. Thus the day is not far distant when we shall have branch societies in every civilized country in the world, when a student can travel to what large university he will, and yet be sure of meeting sympathetic friends, of finding men filled with similar high ideals of the brotherhood of man. I lhe assoCiatioii is beginning to assert itself in other ways. lxecognizmg the fact that the foreign student is usually at a loSS as to what he may expect at American universities, and what particular institution will be best suited to his particular needs, the 295 association recently petitioned the Bureau of Education to issue a pamphlet of information regarding American universities, to be distributed among prospective foreign students through consuls and in whatever other way practicable. if this bulletin is issued --and from correspondence with the Bureau it appears that the petition is likely to have the desired effectiit will contain a tabulation of such items as the cost of living, tuition fees, entrance requirements, opportunities for selfesupport, and special advantages of American universities. It will do much toward advertising the educational facilities of this country. At the suggestion of the Bureau of Education a committee of the association is now working out the details of such a publication. In order further to disseminate correct information concerning the land of their adoption, many members in the association have pledged themselves to give accounts in their native papers and periodicals of American universities and American life, thus removing erroneous impressions which are prevalent abroad con- cerning this country and its educational institutions. What a loyal tribute from these men from foreign lands! At all times they are willing and glad to extol the praises of our nation and its educational systems. There never was a more loyal son of an alma mater than the foreign student. Ai'nerican college men are at times prone to look down upon the foreigner as an undesirable addition to the university community. "They are mere for- eigners-what do they know P" was an expression actually used by a group of students of an enlightened western university at a recent national night of the local chapter-and that, too, after they had listened to a program and accepted the foreigners' lios- pitality, extended with a liberal hand and a cheerful heart. Amer- icans forget that they can learn quite as much from the foreigner as the foreigner acquires from the American. Through our for« eign students not only the great flourishing republics of Latin America but also the venerable and highly civilized nations of the Orient have, in spite of the difl‘ercnces which would mark them off from ourselves, been brought within the range of our Sympathetic knowledge and of our friendly appreciation. Con< sider what an unparalleled opportunity we have of absorbing the high ideals of the representatives of the nations! The foreign student is here not merely to get a degree, and to acquire labori- Hlflm uncov‘ "Sign |