ANGLO-GERMAN STUDENTS' VISITS.
I To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.''] SIR,—On behalf of the Committee organising a visit of German University students to England this year I have been asked to draw the attention of your readers to the scheme in order to elicit the help of any interested in it. We should therefore be very grateful if you could find room for this letter. The idea of the Committee, of which Sir Frank Lascelles is chairman, and Lady Courtney of Penwith, Ur. G. P. Gooch, and others are members, is to encourage a better mutual knowledge of the rising generations in England and Germany by prolonged visits of University students from one country to the other during the vacations. This year about fifty itndents. drawn from most, of the German Universities are .visiting 'England during August and September ; next year it is hoped to organise a return visit of undergraduates from these islands to Germany. Professor Sieper of Munich and one or two other Professors are accompanying the German party this year. The _students arrived at Southampton on Wednesday, and on Thursday at 10 a.m. at University College, Gower Street, Lord Courtney of Penwith presided at the first lecture by Professor Sieper on "The Influence of English Culture on Germany." Visits to various places of interest in London and the environs, receptions, &c., have been arranged for the rest of the week, and on Monday, the 15th, at the same place and time, Professor Sieper will deliver his last lecture on aesthetic culture with especial reference to Ruskin and Morris. Tickets for tilis lecture may be obtained from the honorary secretary, Charles Weiss, Esq., C.E., University College, Gower Street. August 160-23rd: Visit to Cambridge, organised by A. C. Turner, Esq., Trinity. Many of the students will obtain rooms in Colleges. August 23rd-30th : Visit to Oxford, organised by Professor Fiedler, on similar lines to the Cambridge visit. During September the students, who will pay their Own expenses throughout, will break up into parties, some making excursions to the Lake Country, Cathedral towns, &c., others being anxious to obtain board in English families either in London or the country. If any of your readers would give help in one of the following ways, the Committee would be most grateful if they would communicate at once with Charles Weiss, Esq., University College, Gower Street, who will send fuller information and answer all inquiries :—(1) By taking in as paying guests one or more students during September in order to give them a taste of English home life ; (2) by making a small contribution to the cost of
We wish our German guests and visitors a pleasant visik and trust that the weather may prove propitious. That they will ,meet not merely with courtesy but with real kindliness . and good feeling in this country goes without saying.—En. Spectator.]
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