The sun., 1919-08-03
Timely School and
College Notes
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY UNION.


New HAVEN, Conn.,, Aug. Am
nouncement was made at the Office of the
American University Union in Europe BY
Dew. DR.. Arson Phelps Stokes of Yale,
its president. that the work of the union,
which had been originally established
primarily to meet the needs of American
college men In war service, Is to be con-
tinued both in Paris and London. The
trustees have decided after conference
with their officers abroad and with MEM
permanent function to perform In aid
ing American students in these coun-
tries, in Supplying information to for
eign students regarding American insti-
tutlons of higher learning, and in acting
in various ways as a medium of commu
nications between the universities of the
United States and those of European
countries. Dean Yeomans Of Harvard
University has been elected director for
the coming year with headquarters In
Paris in place of Prof. Nettleton of Yale
University, who has Just returned to
this country. Ex-President MacLean of
Iowa University has been elected to sue
coed Prof. Carl Russell Fish OF the Uni
versity of Wisconsin as director of the
London branch. Prof. V!bbert OF the
University of Michigan has been elected
associate director in Paris, and Horatio
S. Krans, recently director of the CO.
lumbia University bureau at the union,
Is to be It's foreign secretary.
The board of trustees of the union at
a meeting the other day reorganized on
a post war basis. Hereafter in place of
the board being mainly self-perpetuat-
ing 1t is to be made UP mainly Of rep
resentatives chosen by various Ameri-
can universities and educational asso-
Citations. Each Of the dozen universities
| in tho country having ten thousand or
more graduates will elect one trustee.
while three trustees are to be elected by
| the Association of American Colleges
and three by the American Association
of University Professors. In addition
the director OF the American Council on
Education and the director of the Insti-
tute of International Education are to
be ex offico trustees, and the board Of
| trustees has the right to add to its num-
Der not to exceed six trustees elected at
large, OF which trustees at large a ma
7 jority may not be connected by gradua-
ton or appointment with the same uni
versity or college
| The board OF trustees plan 70 tnaugu-
rate campaign in the autumn to secure
the money necessary to erect a perma-
mont building in Paris on a site valued
at 100000 offered by the municipality
! of Paris for this purpose. The trustees
| have also decided to raise an endow-
ment fund to help maintain the work.
although considerable support will con-
| tinue to come from the American uni
versities and colleges Almost all Of the
! most important institutions of higher
learning In the country. such as Har-
ward, Columbia. Dartmouth, Vanderbilt,
Johns Hopkins. University of Chicago,
Princeton. University OF California, Yale,
University of Michigan. Catholic Uni
versity OF America, &c. have already
Joined for next year.
The union has received generous
offer from the American Library Asso-
citation TO contribute to the union under
| certain conditions as to maintenance a
| library of $4,000 volumes which has been
the headquarters library In Paris. An
important communication has also been
presented to the trustees from the Amer
lean Army Students In France, an organ
ization made up OF 1000 soldiers who
attended the French universities, ex-
pressing their desire to cooperate with
the union especially in creating friendly
relations between the American and
French universities.