BONN AND CALIFORNIA
SIR,—I should like to express my appreciation for the great service you have rendered the students of the University of Redlands by publishing Mr. Peter Wilde's article An Englishman at Bonn as the first con- tribution to the "Undergraduate Page." The students of this university, learning about conditions in Germany and desirous to express democracy in more practical terms than by the imposition of democratic institutions on a defeated nation by a Military Government, decided to adopt the University of Bonn. They held their first drive on behalf of the Rhenish University in December (oollecting $760), and have now a Bonn Day a week. In addition to money—which will be transmitted through the World Student Service Fund—they are collecting books and clothing, and this week sent the first food parcels to the most needy students of Bonn.
Ultimately we hope to establish close personal relationships between students of Bonn and of Redlands, and to exchange regularly a certain number of students, enabling Bonn students to enjoy student life in California while enabling our students to appreciate conditions in Western Germany by living with the students of Bonn.
Mr. Peter Wilde's article furnishes the first non-official "eye-witness report " which has become available to the students of Redlands. You can imagine with what eagerness it is read, and how grateful we are to you for publishing it.—Believe me, yours very truly,
HENRY G. DrrrmAR,
Assistant Professor of History and the Humanities. University of Redlands, Redlands, California.
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