AN INVITATION TO BRITISH SCHOOLBOYS [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.]
Sir,—In your issue of February 11th you were kind enough to print a letter conveying an offer of scholarship and enter- tainment to two British schoolboys during the summer session of 1928 at Tabor Academy, Massachusetts, U.S.A. As a result of this, and particularly of your editorial endorse- ment appended, we found two first-class youths who were available, and whom England may well be proud to send and America glad to receive.
I should greatly appreciate it if you could spare space for another and slightly different invitation. The Director of Camp Androscoggin, Wayne, Maine, offers to take as a guest for the coming summer a British boy between fourteen and sixteen years of age. He will pay all the boy's expenses from the time the steamer lands in New York early in July until the departure at the same place early in September.
Camp Androscoggin, with about fifty boys, is one of the best, and incidentally one of the most expensive, in America, where the summer camp is an educational institution of great development and estimation. Supervised play in the wilder- ness country, line companionship with boys from good American homes, a wholesome and strenuous regimen, special tutoring, if desired-this is the prospect.
Naturally the invitation •will interest chiefly those parents who themselves contemplate a journey to America this summer, though it happens that if a boy set out by himself, the American University Union would be able to put him in charge of two young men who are leaving for New York about July 1st, and returning early in September: The invitation is supported by a hearty commendation from Dr. F. P. Keppel, President of the Carnegie Corporation, which administers nearly all the Carnegie philanthropies. The director of the camp is also well and very favourably known to the undersigned, who would be glad to answer any letters regarding the matter.—I am, Sir, &c., DIXON RYAN Fox, Director.
American University Union, 50 Russell Square, London, W.C. 1.
[We can think of no more delightful holiday for a British boy anxious to see the world than that offered in this generous proposal.—En. Spectator.]
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