The plan for a "floating college" (TiME, May 26), by which a group of Manhattan educators and laymen proposed to charter the Shipping Board liner President Arthur and take 450 students on a world cruise, last week received high praise from Leigh C. Palmer, President of the Fleet Corporation, and from T. V. O'Connor, Chairman of the Shipping Board. Said Mr. O'Connor: "It requires but a moment's thought to see that if groups of alert young Americans visit foreign ports in an American flagship, they will, by gaining first hand information on...
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