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create sympathetic and permanent bonds of friendship. The system of 

 exchange professorships would not only supplement diplomatic effort in 

 bringing about friendly relations but would increase them in force and 

 intensity, and upon a basis of common understanding derived from 

 personal knowledge, interchange of thought, and a comprehension of 

 American ideals, exchange professors would tend to draw all portions 

 of the American Hemisphere into closer contact. 



In regard to the proposed exchange of professors and students, it 

 should be said in this connection that in 1 909 the Honorable PHILANDER 

 C. KNOX, when Secretary of State of the United States, directed that the 

 subject be laid before the Governing Board of the International Bureau of 

 the American Republics "not only for discussion and consideration but, 

 if approved, for the elaboration of the details necessarily incident to 

 the establishment of exchange professorships in Pan America." The 

 Goveining Board approved the proposal and it was included in the 

 program for the Fourth International Pan American Conference, and 

 Mr. KNOX instructed the North American delegates to that Conference, 

 which met at Buenos Aires, July 10, 1910, to give their "hearty support 

 to any practical plan tending to this end which may be devised," stating 

 that "an exchange of professors and students among the universities and 

 academies of the American Republics will undoubtedly promote mutual 

 intellectual and social understanding and sympathy." 



As a result of this enlightened and persistent action on the part of 

 Mr. KNOX, the subject was considered at the Conference at Buenos Aires 

 which adopted the following resolutions: 



The Fourth International American Conference, assembled at Buenos Aires, resolves; 



I. To recommend to the Governments of America in regard to their public 

 Universities and to the Universities recognized by those Govern- 

 ments, that they establish the interchange of professors on the 

 following principles: 



First. The above-mentioned Universities shall grant facilities for pro- 

 fessors sent from one to another for the holding of classes or giving lectures. 



Second. Such classes or lectures shall treat chiefly of scientific matters 

 of interest to America, or relating to the conditions of one or more of the 

 American countries, especially that in which the professor is teaching. 



Third. Every year the Universities desiring the interchange shall give 

 notice to each other of the matters of which their professors can treat and 

 of those which they desire to be treated of, respectively, in their classes. 



Fourth. The remuneration of a professor shall be paid by the university 

 which has appointed him, unless his services shall have been expressly 

 requested, in which case his remuneration shall be charged to the Uni- 

 versity which has engaged his services. 



