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re the Emergency Conunittee for Displaced Foscign Scholars, discussed the problem of placing foreizn scholars in American colleges. Among the other lectures, mention should be made of a talk on public welfare by Mr, Ralph Page, Commissioner of Public Welfare in New Hampshire, one on the Ameri- can Press by Mr. R. H. Markham, special correspondent of the Cdristion Science Monitor, one on the Suciology of the Radio by Dr, Paul Lazarsfeld, Professor at Columbia University and Director of Radio Research for the Rockefeller Foundation, and one on the New Hampshire League of Arts and Crafts by its founder, Mrs. Randolph Coolidge. The atmosphere in the lecture room was informal; members asked questions on everything from philosophy to etiquette. The lectures provoked comparisons with European institutions, that made good material for discussion with the tutors in the afternoon conversation groups. » Lunch was followed by a quiet hour, a concession to the vacation season and European customs. Between three and five the campus was dotted with little groups of persons, sitting on the ground in the shade. A visitor driving in could not guess that the most intensive work of the day was in progress. Each member belonged to a conversation group of four or five persons inter- ested in the same field. The graup met with a tutor for forty minutes four afternoons a week, and in addition each member had four scheduled indi- vidual tutorial conferences of twenty minutes. Each group worked out its own program, according to the common needs and interests of its members. Individual conferences were usually devoted to help with pronunciation, letter writing, or the preparation of a specch or article. At one stage the campus echoed from the kitchen to the tennis courts with muttered snatches of the Gettysburg Address in a bewilderine variety of accents. At table newly acquired idioms were proudly paraded, sometimes in a startling con- text. Between five and six there were usually choir rehearsals or folk danc- ing. Some persons strolled to the village and the three croquet courts were in constant use. One evening each week the Seminar put om an entertainment for the community. Vocal and instrumental music, a play of Chekov’s, folk dances «and modern dances were presented by distinguished European artists and enthusiastically received by capacity audiences. Through the final enter- tainment the Seminar raised more than $400.00 for the new Plymouth Memorial Hospital. Through the kindness of the Northern New Hampshire Broadcasting Company, ten members of the Seminar, representing nine different nationalities, gave a broadcast on the cultural relations between their countries and the United States. Beside the formal entertainments, the musicians frequently gave delizhtful impromptu programs in the living room, One or two evenings a week the “Highbrows,” who by their own assertion needed food for thought, and whe in the faculty's opinion needed practice in public speaking in Enclish, met to discuss social and philusephic questions. The juniors countered by organizing Saturday evening dances. Whatever the program, the evening ended with the rite of raiding the ice box, a custom tarely encouraged by institutions, One feature of the daily routine deserves special mention: the co-opera- tive work program, which meant that each person cared for his awn room except for the sweeping, and took his turn waiting on table, dishwashing and helping with the Saturday morning cleaning. No member worked every weck or more thin tye fours a day on the averave. The work provram was of course a financial necessity, but it was far more than that. Through the manual fabor new skilis were acquired—ilvarned gentlemen who had never before polished their own shoes found couraze to attempt the laundering of their shirts—at some risk to the shirts. Trouser creases, that were irregular by all objective standards, were exhibited by their owners with the pride of