200 DELEGATES ATTEND THIRD N.S.F.A. CONGRESS

Two hundred student delegates representing 129 colleges and universities in 36 of the states, in Hawail and in London, England, attended the Third Annual Congress of the National Federation of America at Lincoin, Nebraska last December, it was announced by the Executive Committee of the organization recently.

The subject taken up at the Congress was "The Student in the Community and as a Citizen." To the various phases of this subject the discussion groups were apportioned, including groups to discuss student government, the honor system, fraternities, curriculum, training for public careers, and athletics. Parallel to these discussion groups were the open meetings of the six standing committees on finance, travel, curriculum, international relations, publicity, and organization. These meetings served a purpose similar to that of the discussion groups, except that they were based on the activities of permanent committees which had been working for the past year in their respective fields.

It was also decided at the Congress that a permanent central office should be established and that the functions of this office should be taken over by the president and his secretary, with the provision that if the state of finances should warrant the establishment of a separate central office, this should be effected.

Policy Has Two Aims

The policy of the Executive Committee for the coming year is centered around two goals: expansion, in order that the N. S. F. A. will be made the official student union of the United States and as such will include every prominent college in this country: and, secondly, an increase in the benefits accruing to membership, so that the N. S. F. A. will be a valuable and necessary organization to American students. Its first step toward effecting these aims is its advent in the field of international debating, announced on April 2.

The Institute of International Education through its Director, Dr. S. P. Duggan, has turned over the management of all international debating in which the United States has participant teams to the Federation. The Institute has, in previous years, made all arrangements in this country for the debating tours of various foreign teams, especially the English groups, and has developed this function up to the point where it is entirely self-supporting. This year it has chosen to turn the project over to the students. Negotiations have been completed so that in the future the N. S. F. A. will be in entire charge of this field.

The program planned for debating by the Federation includes forensic work both in America and abroad.

Three invading teams each year will visit the United States, two groups from England which will be chosen in rotation from the Oxford, Cambridge and National Union of Students teams, and the third for 1928, will be an Australian team. Arrangements have been made for the reception of a Canadian team in 1929, and English speaking debaters from Germany. Holland, and South Africa have been negotiating for speaking tours among the American colleges.

This fall, regional or national elimination tryouts by teams from N. S. F. A. member colleges will be held to determine the American representatives for foreign trips. The itineraries for the winning teams will be arranged by the Federation.

This summer, the N. S. F. A. will send nine groups of students as delegates to European countries to visit and confer with members of the C. I. E. Officers of the Federation will head these expeditionary units on their missions of travel and of establishing international relationships.