Alarums and Excursions

> As U. S. schools and colleges opened, many a student and teacher, stranded in Europe, failed to answer the roll call. But not resourceful Miss Alice T. Scheh, a Brooklyn high-school stenography teacher, who had an adventure to report to her pupils when she faced them bright & early one morning this week. Having spent the summer traveling alone in Iran and Iraq, Miss Scheh arrived in Italy with a return steamship ticket and a flat purse. Her ship developed "engine trouble," failed to sail. So did other ships to which the Italian Line transferred her. Unable to get either passage or refund from the Italian Line, she hurried to Havre and laid siege to the U. S. Lines office. After ten hours, company officials surrendered, signed on Miss Scheh as a member of the U. S. Manhattan's crew (official stenographer and typist), let her work her way home.

> As 32 U. S. Rhodes scholars prepared to board ship for England and Oxford, Swarthmore's President Frank Aydelotte, U. S. secretary for the scholarships, suddenly notified them to cancel their reservations, announced that the Rhodes trustees had suspended the scholarships for the war's duration. The 64 Rhodesmen al ready at Oxford on the 1937 and 1938 scholarships were sent home. Dr. Ayde lotte said he would try to get his Rhodes-men scholarships or teaching jobs in the U. S., that at war's end their Rhodes scholarships would still be good.

> In England, sober dons beetled back early to Oxford and Cambridge, which announced they would open as usual for the Michaelmas term next month. Both universities expect subnormal enrollments. Cambridge began to remove the 16th Century glass from its King's College chapel. Oxford gave up some of its buildings for hospitals.

> Saddest educator was white-haired Dr. Stephen Duggan, director of the Institute of International Education, founded in 1919 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to promote world good will by international exchange of university students. Dr. Duggan expected the war to play hob with the education of 8,000 U. S. students abroad, 7,500 foreign students in the U. S. Sadly he announced that his Institute had had to cancel the fellowships of 300 U. S. scholars due to go to Europe this fall. As he prepared to send 100 others to Canada, South America and the Far East, Peacemaker Duggan said stoutly: "I look upon this war as an interlude in our work. We intend to continue stronger than before."

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