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AMERICANS PLAN
TO STUDY italy
Arrangements With Royal Uni
versity CT Rome Designed to
Promote Friendly relations.
TWELVE SCHOLARSHIPS OPEN
Diplomats and College Professors to
Address the Glasses This Sum-
ner-Languagc, History and
Culture Featured.

New York.--A series of courses for
Americans, to be given in Rome dur
ing the summer of 1929, has been
organized by the Assoeiazione Italo-
Americana, in collaboration with the
academic authorities of the Royal Uni
versity of Rome and under the patron
age of the American ambassador to
Italy.
The courses are planned with view
to making better known in the United
States the language, history, culture
and economic conditions of Italy, so
that the mutual understanding and
friendly relations of the two countries
may be increased and strengthened.
Instruction in the courses, which
will extend from July 10 to August
81 Will be adapted to the needs of
the American student. A large num-
Der of the courses in the literary, his
torical and economical development Of
Italy will be in Italian, supplemented,
when necessary, by the use of Eng
fish.
Twelve Scholarships
Twelve scholarships, to be assigned
by the universities on the basis of
merit among the applicants, are of
fered by the Associazione ItaIo-Ameri-
cana to students in the several Ameri-
can universities. All students enrolled
for the summer courses of lectures
will be entitled to the daily use of the
Library of American Studies in Italy,
and various rooms open also in the
evening, for social gatherings and for !
study, situated in the center of the city |
of Rome, not far from the university. |
Here many American newspapers and |
will be available. Stu |
dents will also be entitled to the |
use of the university library. Each
student will also gain free admission,
during the period of the courses. TO all
the antiquities monuments, galleries
and museums of the Italian govern
ment and of the city of Rome.
The offices of the Associazione Italo-
Americana in Rome, of the Institute
Of International Education 40 West
One hundred and seventeenth street,
this city and of the Italy-America
society % West Forty-third street
will furnish on request information
is to the courses, as well as answer
questions and make suggestions CON
,erning living conditions in Rome
hotels, boarding houses. etc.
To Promote Friendly Relations.
The Associazione Italo-Americana :
vas organized in Rome in 1919. under
he auspices of persons prominent in
scientific, industrial and
financial circles. for the following pur-
,oses ITO foster cordial relations be-
.
means of courses of study, pubIica-
ions, lectures etc; to establish CO.
peration with Italian citizens living
n America and Americans living in
tally: to increase economic relations
nd to assist industrial and com
lercial organizations of Italians and
mericans. under conditions which :
hall not affect the economic indie
of the two countries" =
Among the speakers in Rome this
ear Will be Tommasc Tittoni, presi-
emit of the Italian senate, who visited A
he United States last fall Professor :
odolfo Lanciana, authority on an
ent Rome. and Professors Pietro II
onfante and Carlo Formichi, both OF m
e ROYAL University of Rome The
;sociatiun has undertaken to arrange
Il the exchange of professors as wei u
the establishment of scholarships =
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