Review of reviews and world's work . he party, the latterto serve as chaperones. Mrs. Alice GordonGulick, head of the noted American Board mis-sion school for girls, has been secured to act asdean of the womens department. For six and ahalf weeks the teachers will be the guests of Har-vard University, which will furnish not only in-struction, but board and lodging—the expenseof which has been assumed by the University, re-lying on the hospitality and generosity of thepeople of New England to make good the ex-pense incurred, which it is estimated will be$70,000. Systematic instruction in Englis
Review of reviews and world's work . he party, the latterto serve as chaperones. Mrs. Alice GordonGulick, head of the noted American Board mis-sion school for girls, has been secured to act asdean of the womens department. For six and ahalf weeks the teachers will be the guests of Har-vard University, which will furnish not only in-struction, but board and lodging—the expenseof which has been assumed by the University, re-lying on the hospitality and generosity of thepeople of New England to make good the ex-pense incurred, which it is estimated will be$70,000. Systematic instruction in Englisli,physical geography, history (American and Span-ish-American), botany, and kindergarten methodswill be given, chiefly in Spanish, by the regular 14 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REI^/EIVS. teaching staff of Harvard, supplemented by thirtyor forty extra teachers who use Spanish to points of historic interest and tomanufacturing establishments will contribute tothe enlightenment of the visitors. After the teach-. MR. ALEXIS E. FRYE. (Superintendent of Education in Cuba.) ers leave Cambridge, they are to visit NiagaraFalls, Chicago, Washington, and Nev/ York,from which city they will sail home on the Gov-ernment transports. Nothing that Harvard hasdone in her long career has been more creditableto her than the work she plans to do this summerfor the men and women on whom the future ofCuba so much depends. The scheme originatedwith two Harvard alumni in Cuba, Messrs. Conantand Frye. It met with the hearty approval ofanother Harvard alumnus. Governor Wood; andwhen it came to President Eliot, its audacity andromantic aspects, as much as its serious worth,instantly won his assent and cooperation. WithFrye at work in Cuba laying the foundations ofa school system, and another Harvard-graduate,F. A¥. Atkinson, until recently head of theSpringfield High School, en route to the Philip-pines charged with responsibility for the sameserious task, Harvard may well feel
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