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no question that the proportion of those who pursue their 

 entire graduate course abroad has much decreased. Their 

 place is being taken by a growing number of mature 

 students professors on leave, traveling fellows, newly- 

 made doctors, and others who desire to continue work 

 already well begun here. During their residence abroad 

 these men will no doubt increase their stock of historical 

 information and learn valuable lessons in historical 

 method. But their greatest profit will come from access 

 to great collections of historical material, from the stimulus 

 of contact with new teachers and new ideas, and from 

 first-hand knowledge of the monuments of the European 

 past and the life of the European present. To such 

 students France offers a warm welcome and a wide 

 opportunity. 



