board with various notices in Spanish; most prominent, an announcement to the effect that members of the expedition might confess themselves at "la iglesia de San Pablo "the Roman Catholic Church of St. Paul's, in Cambridge.

The regular Summer School of the University goes on as usual, but its programme includes the special course arranged with reference to the practical needs of the Cubans. The work laid out makes a very busy day of it, but the teachers apply themselves to it with striking energy, show ing a determination to make the most of their opportunities. The course was broadly divided into three departments language, history, and natural science. English was the language selected; the history, that of the United States and of the Spanish-American colonies; the natural science was physical geography, or physiography. For the last, a programme of afternoon excursions into the country about Boston was arranged. These excursions not only give remarkable opportunities for studying on the ground the effects of erosion, glaciation, etc., but are enjoyable for the pleasures of open-air exercise, of the New England landscape, and of many and various glimpses into American life and activities. Other excursions are devoted to visits to typical industrial establishments-printing and book-making, shoe-factories, ship-building, etc., as examples of the manifold manufacturing undertakings that underlie the material greatness of the American people. Great care has been taken to provide competent instructors who combine with an adequate knowledge of Spanish the ability to teach. Special lectures on various subjects were prepared by professors at the University, and these were put into Spanish to be read to the audiences, sometimes by the authors, but more often by persons familiar with the language. Besides the regular course, various electives are chosen, a popular one being a course of instruction in sloyd at the Cambridge Manual Training School-manual training having a special value for the Cubans, who have been peculiarly lacking in means for training their hands and therewith quick ening their minds.

The boarding of the visitors, like all the regular expenses of the school, was provided for by the fund raised by the

University. The women are served with coffee and rolls the universal Cuban breakfast at their lodgings, while luncheon and dinner are served at Memorial Hall, the men taking all three meals at Randall, the new dining-hall of the University. The filling of these two great halls, the one with señoritas y señoras and the other with señores, is in strange contrast with their customary aspect.

The work of the school is a pleasure to the Cubans, but interspersed through the days are many specifically recreative features. The visitors are profoundly touched and are delightfully responsive to the efforts made for their entertainment, their convenience, and their comfort—the cordial reception on landing at the Navy Yard, bouquets given each lady in welcome; the provisions for guides and interpreters, and the thorough arrangements in all details for their reception and care; the weekly bailes, or dances, in their honor in the Hemenway Gymnasium; and instances of private hospitality like the delightful Sunday lawn-party given by one of the first ladies of Cambridge, who, with her husband, came from their seaside home to show due hospitality to the strangers; and the printing of a condensed guide in Spanish in one of the Boston dailies, followed by a series of short stories by eminent Spanish authors, both in Spanish and English-all these things have made an impression whose lasting effects will well repay the pains taken.

So

On the part of the Cubans an early testimonial to their sense of gratitude was given in their charming recognition of our National holiday. They had been particularly impressed with the existence of precious memorials of American history all about them, and they quietly planned to observe the Fourth of July by going in a body to the venerable elm where Washington took command of the Continental army, to lay there a great wreath. after luncheon the men marched to Memorial, and through the grand dining-hall, where the women had just finished their meal, waiting until the latter took the head of the procession. At the front a woman carried a great American flag. Those following carried hundreds of Cuban flags and crimson colors with the name of the University. After the American banner was borne the gigantic wreath, of roses

and laurel, and tied with a great crimson ribbon with the words: "Á la Memoria de Washington el Magisterio de Cuba," (To the Memory of Washington, from the Cuban Teachers). President Eliot and Mr. Frye were standing under the elm when the procession arrived. The wreath was reverently laid on the stone beneath the old tree. That was all, except the tremendous cheering that followed-not hurrahs," but the exciting "Vivas!" of the Spanish-vivas for President Eliot, for Mr. Frye, for la ciudad de Cambridge, for Washington, and for el pueblo AmeriOn the wreath were these verses:

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Á JORGE WASHINGTON
America fué tu cuna

Y de muchos liberales
Cuyos nombres inmortales
Se conservan, por fortuna.
Y no habrá persona alguna
Que haya leido tu historia
Que no evoque tu memoria
De alegría tu alma llena.
Que quien rompe una cadena
Merecedor es de gloria.

-Un Cubano.

"America was thy cradle," it says of the great patriot, "and of many liberal men whose names are fortunately preserved. And no one has read thy history without evoking thy memory to fill the soul with joy. For he that breaks a chain is deserving of glory." Returning to the University, and marching down Massachusetts Avenue, they sang the Cuban National Hymn. Crossing the College yard, and meeting Mr. Frye, that gentleman was seized and borne on the shoulders of the men, with cheers and more songs, to which a group of Harvard men responded with American songs and the "'rah!" of the University.

In planning this great expedition, Mr. Frye had first in mind the definite purpose of unifying Cuba. The island has long been filled with sectional jealousies and hatreds. The various parts have little connection with each other, and each province has considered itself the only portion of Cuba worth anything.

other for what they are, and forming lasting friendships. The desired result is assured, and the teachers return to impart, each from his or her own little center, the lesson of fraternity throughout Cuba.

Other main objects were to obtain the broadening and liberalizing influences of travel abroad; the advantages of earnest study in the educational capital of America; contact with the American people in contrast with the military power of the United States-which was practically all they had known to give them an impression of Americans. And, finally, there was the effect to be produced on their return, and the stories to be told of the treatment they had received.

All of these expectations are being richly justified. The women, whose home life in Cuba is charming, are gaining intimate knowledge of much that is best in American home life; hundreds of new and lasting international friendships are forming— and the true American people will have a name and a regard in Cuba which would otherwise be impossible. One of the men teachers wrote to a Boston newspaper that he had written for three Havana newspapers various articles against the Americans, and very offensive to Americans; he now regretted extremely that he had done so, but the Americans seen in Cuba, were, as a rule, rude, ill-mannered persons, who sat with feet on tables, and committed various other improprieties. been like the Americans of Boston and Cambridge, the impression would have been very different, and he would return with a different conception of the American people.

Had they

here representative men and women from all parts of Cuba are brought for two months into close association for a common purpose, learning to know one an