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Fifth. The Universities shall determine annually the amount, to be 

 taken from their own funds, should they have any, or to be asked from 

 their respective Governments, for the costs incurred in fulfillment of the 

 terms of this Resolution. 



Sixth. It is to be desired that the Universities of America should assemble 

 at a Congress to provide for University extension and other means of 

 American intellectual cooperation. 



II. The Fourth International American Conference being of the opinion 

 also that it would be well for the strengthening of the solidarity of 

 the Nations of the Continent that there should be an interchange 

 of students between the American Universities, resolves: 



1. To recommend that the Universities of America should create scholar- 

 ships in favor of students of other countries of this same Continent, with 

 or without reciprocal charges, adopting, either directly or through the 

 Government on which they are dependent, the necessary measures for the 

 practical carrying out of this agreement. 



2. Each University which shall have created such scholarship shall 

 appoint a committee to be charged with the care of the students to whom 

 such scholarships have been given, to direct their studies and to lay down 

 the rules necessary to secure due performance of their duties. 



3. The Universities so attended by a foreign student shall enter him in 

 his corresponding course in conformity with the plan of studies and the 

 respective regulations. 



The advantages mentioned by Secretary KNOX of the exchange of 

 professors and of students, and which were evident to the official 

 delegates of the American Republics in conference at Buenos Aires, 

 are as clear if not clearer to-day than they were then, and the 

 Congress stood on solid and incontrovertible ground when it not merely 

 approved the project but extended it to educators of all grades and to 

 students of universities, normal, and technical schools. It will be noted 

 that the language of Article 19 is not that of a mere recommendation. 

 It is more urgent, more personal, if the expression may be allowed in 

 relation to Governments, because the partisans of the exchange of pro- 

 fessors and students as outlined in the article are " to petition the Gov- 

 ernments of the American Republics to further the exchange." It is to 

 be hoped that the petition of the Congress will not fall upon deaf ears. 



