At Springfield

Federal immigration authorities ordered out of the country 17 foreign-born students enrolled at the American International College, Springfield, Mass. The students were post-quota entrants to the U. S. Chancellor McGowan attempted to stave off his pupils' deportation by urging that their status as students afforded a refuge from the rigors of quota law.

The American International College, founded 1885 in Lowell, Mass., as the French Protestant College, assumed in 1905 its present name and its character of a nonsectarian, co-educational preparatory school for immigrants.

A high school course and advanced training in languages and philosophy are offered, at low fees, to foreigners. Originally for French-speaking peoples, the college now enrolls 30 or more races and nationalities. Never more than 10% of the students are American born.

The aim is to train the foreign-born for work among their fellows here and in their home lands.