AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CERCLE AND VEREIN.

As a general thing every college student desires to supplement his education by a trip abroad, but very often lacks the opportunity to realize this wish. Among some students the longing to visit other lands and mingle with other people is so poignant that they prefer a trip on a cattle-ship rather than none at all. Realizing the general prevalence of this desire for foreign travel, the French Society at Columbia University has entered into a new field of activity and drawn up a plan for an educational tour of France during the coming summer. The aim of the society is to conduct the trip on a purely educational basis, and so it has reduced prices to an absolute minimum. The trip will be strictly informal, members of the party being placed under no restrictions, and it will include all points of interest in France. Certainly no better opportunity could be afforded to any student who desires to visit France and to derive real educational value from the visit.

This action on the part of the French Society of Columbia is not only interesting in itself, but if offers a significant suggestion to various organizations at Harvard. We have the Cercle Francais and the Deutscher Verein, the Sociedad Espanola and the Circolo Italiano, all of which are large and active organizations. If they desire to extend the scope of their activities and be of increased service to the student body, here is an opportunity. Certainly a large number of Harvard students would be only too glad to support a movement that offers, at a minimum cost, such exceptional opportunities for agreeable and instructive travel abroad.