AMERICAN OPINION RECORDED

A Committee has been formed in Paris, under the name of Comite Nationale d'Etudes and composed of M. Hovelaque (Inspector of Public Instruction), M. de Lapradelle (Professor of Law), M. Lichtenberger (Professor of German Language and Literature, former French Exchange Professor at Harvard), and Professor J. H. Woods. The task of the Committee is to collect methodically all available information concerning the trend of public opinion in America, both for a better understanding in France of the American point of view, and for use by the French Foreign Office, War Office and other branches of Government. The Committee wants chiefly clippings from newspapers, giving not so much items of news, as expressions of opinion, in leading articles, reports of speeches, sermons, and lectures, reviews, etc. A young Harvard graduate is about to be appointed at the Committee's office in Paris to tabulate and classify these clippings. Opinions hostile to France, and opinions from papers in foreign languages would be especially welcome. A translation, however, should if possible, be furnished with clippings in, say, Bulgarian or Modern Greek. Clippings from papers published outside Boston would fill a distinct gap in the Committee's collection.

Work Entirely Voluntary

The work is, of course, wholly voluntary, but the Committee offers to send in return any information about currents of opinion in France which its correspondents may desire. This seems a good opportunity of doing a service to France at very little trouble to the individual student, who, according to his opportunities, might specialize in clippings bearing on one or more topics from the list given below.

Clippings should be sent as frequently as possible to Professor Woods, at the Comite Nationale d'Etudes, 45 Rue d'Ulm, Paris, Ve. Students who desire to take part in this work are asked to drop their names and addresses into my box in Emerson Hall, or send them to me at 2 Shady Hill Square, Cambridge, for communication to Professor Woods.