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the American student who studies abroad an excellent French point 

 of view. Occasionally one of these graduate Frenchmen remains 

 in a foreign country some years, as in the case of M. Louis Allard, 

 who taught and lectured a year or more in Laval University, Que- 

 bec, and for the past two years has been one of the regular in- 

 structors in French in Harvard College. This year (1908) a young 

 woman, Mile. Elichabe, is one of the holders of the Around the 

 World Fellowship. Her lectures in different parts of the country 

 have been noteworthy. 



A few of the largest and best-endowed institutions of learning 

 in this country, such as those already named, are well provided with 

 traveling fellowships. The catalogs of a number of our colleges 

 call particular attention to such special advantages; at Boston 

 University, for instance, the Ada Draper fund of $25,000, the in- 

 come of which is to be applied " to enable the most meritorious and 

 needy student among the young women to be sent to Europe after 

 graduation to complete her studies." In this way students, sure 

 of their future, are able to concentrate their whole time and thought 

 on the main object of their foreign residence. 



Thus, from what has been shown, the signs of the times seem 

 to point not only to a mutual desire on the part of France and of 

 this country to bind more cordially together the old intellectual ties 

 of sympathy that were so strong in the days of Franklin and Jeffer- 

 son, but to a common world understanding that shall ultimately do 

 away with intellectual barriers between nations. That a movement 

 so thoroughly in accord with the best spirit of the times should be 

 fraught with success is the earnest hope of all who desire the moral 

 and intellectual advancement, not only of France and America, but 

 of all civilized nations. 



