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of Inking any personal responsibility in tho
mat tor novo;1 once enters the average per
son's mind. The idea is laughed at that one
can travel just as easy, with as little care,
and live cheaper in the old country tlm one
can in this country. Surely no Am -rican
will admit that he does not know on . $h to
travel whore ho likes in this country ...:d as
sume any responsibility that may devolve
upon him. Why not assume a littlo respons
ibility, then, and travel in ICnglnud, Scot
land, Franco, Germany or oilier countries of
Europe we might mention, since it can be
done on little more than half what such trav
eling would cost in our own country?
We need not dwell any longer on gener
alities, but we will specialize a little and
give a few figures to prove any assertion wo
have made in the forgoing.
The original intention was for the party
under Professor Loss to visit England alone,
and perhaps Scotland. Finally it was decid
ed to go direct to Scotland and work down
through England. The cost to each mem
ber of the party was to be $250. If any
money was left in the treasury after England
and Scotland had been captured, the party
was to go to the continent and spend the
balance, it being understood, of course, that
return trip tickets had been purchased.
Thephinwas carried out successfully by
the party visiting Glasgow, the Highlands,
Stirling and Edinburgh, in Scotland; York,
Manchester, Oldham, Liverpool, Chester,
Leamington (Stratford-on-A von, Kenilworth,
Coventry, Warwick, and "Rugby), Oxford
and London, in England. In each one of
the places mentioned the party stayed sever
al days and made excursions to points of
interest near by, such as Ayr, and the land
f Burns, Lochs Lomond and Katrine and
the Trossachs, Koslyn Castle and Glen,
Hawthornden, Llandudno, in Wales, etc.
la London the party remained eighteen
s (Cook's party was there four days) mid
were then sorry to leave, butthero was money
the treasury and wo started for the conti
nent. Tho party had spent one month and
sixteen days in Scotland and England.
On the continent, one week was spent in
in Paris, and still tho money held out. The
party decided to sec more of the world. it
went straight to Switzerland and spent sev
eral days in Lucerne and Zurich, thence on
to Mnnhoim on the "Rhino. It "saw tho blue
Rhino sweep along," and swept with it
from Munheim to Cologne. Two nights
wore spent in Cologne, then two days and a
night in Holland. Finally, tho party sailed
from Rotterdam August 20. Still the money
hold out. Tho trip from Glasgow, Juno 22,
up to Rotterdam, August 20, had cost each
member of the party $102.f)0 and there was
still some left. September L the pary
landed in Now York and by the Gth or 0th
nearly everyone had arrived home safely.
The entire cost of tho trip, exclusive of sou
venirs and other delicacies, was $250 each,
not a cent more and but few cents less. The
party could not complain of the living for
each one lived fully as well as he would have
done had ho remained in this country.
This is tho first but it will not 'bo the last
party sent out by the University. We sin
cerely hope, at least, tnat others will follow
soon. It is impossible to estimate the bone
lits to be derived from such a trip. There
is nothing Hint will broaden the mind more.
One's reading will become more interesting
through associations born of experience, and
an article written in ignorance, or with the
the purpose- of misleading, will be judged
according to its rightful value.
Tt would be unjust for us to closo this ar
ticle without saying a word in praiso of Pro
fessor Loes. It would have been hard for
the authorities to find a man more thorough
ly capable of managing a party bent on see
ing and learning all they possibly could and
more. Tho success of tho party was almost
entirely duo to the efforts of tho professor
and if ho undertakes to pilot another such a
party there is no tolling where they will go.
Money becomes india rubber in his hands,
and tlie farther ho goos tho farther it goes.
We sincerely hope that tho next party that is
sent out will have as their loader Professor
Lees.
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