FROM LITTLE ACORNS

For the past month, various members of the Freshman and Sophomore class have received curious little postcards which enquire politely "whether the recipient is interested in working with foreign students." A start has been made in resurrecting the almost defunct Brooks House Foreign Student Committee, but there is a definite need for some specific program which will care for the hundred foreign students who annually arrive in Cambridge relatively un-befriended.

With the added burden of the Refugee students, it is not too soon for Brooks House to begin planning for next year. Ideally the members of the Foreign Student Committee should be on hand several days before registration to help the newcomers find rooms and to advise them on such routine matters as where to eat, where to deposit their funds, and how to find their way about the Square. Since a majority of the foreign students take graduate courses, men in each of the graduate schools should be enlisted to help, and the support of the deans of the graduate schools should be secured so that they will immediately refer their foreign students to the Committee. Once they have settled their charges, the activities of the Committee should take a more social turn. Various members of the Faculty might easily be persuaded to entertain the foreign students in small groups along with any natives who were interested in meeting them.

From the ranks of those who answered the postcards in the affirmative, P. B. H. has a nucleus of administrators for any program they may wish to undrtake. Now that the first step has been taken and the seed sown, the future success of the committee in solving the difficult problem of acclimation depends largely upon the wisdom of their subsequent program of action.