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vivantes. The name of the French ambassador to the United 

 States, at that time M. Jules Cambon, was afterwards added to 

 the list. 



To cooperate with this commission and aid the members in ren- 

 dering their efforts as effective as possible, in accordance with Pro- 

 fessor Furber's suggestion, the following committee, chosen from 

 distinguished American educators, was appointed: President 

 Angell of the University of Michigan; President D wight of Yale 

 University; President Eliot of Harvard University; President Gil- 

 man of Johns Hopkins University; G. Brown Goode, Assistant Sec- 

 retary in the United States National Museum; E. R. L. Gould, Sec- 

 retary of the International Statistical Association; President G. 

 Stanley Hall of Clark University; Wm. T. Harris, U. S. Commis- 

 sioner of Education; S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institute; President Seth Low of Columbia College; Simon New- 

 comb, U. S. N., Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac; President 

 Schurman of Cornell University; Andrew D. White, ex-Minister 

 to Germany; President B. L. Whitman of Columbian University; 

 Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Commissioner of Labor. The commission 

 and the committee together constituted the Franco-American 

 Committee. 



Immediately an active campaign to further the common cause 

 was begun by both the members of the commission and those of 

 the committee. In the way of propaganda, one of the best contri- 

 butions appeared in the Forum, New York, May, 1897, from the 

 pen of Simon Newcomb. This article was entitled "France as a Field 

 for American Students." The advantages to be had by the Amer- 

 ican students at the Sorbonne, College de France, and Ecole pratique 

 des hautes etudes were well set forth. The article appeared before 

 the creation of the degree of doctor of the university; nevertheless, 

 the comparison between the French system then in vogue and the 

 German system is luminous and will repay reading at any time. 

 Another able article, most sympathetically written, and showing 

 the friendly feeling between France and America during critical 

 periods in the history of both, aimed to bring about closer intel- 

 lectual relations in the immediate future. This article, by Pro- 

 fessor Raphael George Levy, of theficole libre des sciences politiques, 

 was published in the Revue internationale de 1'enseignement for Feb- 

 ruary, 1897. In 1899, the Franco- American Committee, 87 boule- 

 vard Saint-Michel, published a pamphlet containing in one hun- 

 dred and thirty-eight pages a clear account of the system of higher 



