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Group Two will visit the Scandinavian and Baltic states in addition to Poland, Prague, Geneva, and Paris. The detailed itinerary will be announced later. In almost every case the national student unions have arranged receptions and dinners at the more important cities visited by both Harvard groups, where there will be opportunity to meet and talk with student leaders and prominent statesmen and public...
Each group is limited to 15, including the leader. One will visit Central Europe, including Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, and Switzerland, the second will travel through the Baltic States and Northern Europe, and the third will cover England, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Italy. All three groups will spend several weeks in Geneva and Paris. In every country, the national student unions, members of the International Confederation of Student, will act as hosts...
Just how the parasitic insects were preserved in a fossil state so that they could be studied advantageously was not clear to the reporter until, in reply to his question, Professor Brues said that there were large numbers of insect fossils in Baltic amber...
...fossil-bearing is amber occurs in several places, but is particularly abundant around the Baltic sea. Much of the land originally covered by the great pine forests has at present sunk into the sea, and lumps of the amber are constantly being cast up on the Baltic beaches. The lumps of amber are then sliced and polished so that the insects imbedded in it are brought as near to the surface as possible. Most of the fossil-bearing amber available for study," said Professor Brues, "is contained into the various museums of Prussia...
...groups are already being formed at Harvard, one under the leadership of Max Habicht, a special student at the Law School and the other under H. W. Foote '27. Habicht, who is active in the C. I. E. will lead a groups to practically all the Baltic--States, also including visits to London, Paris, and Geneva. Foote will take the Danube tour, including South Germany, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, and the Balkans as far as Constitinople. I should like to emphasize that all these tours are entirely different from the much-advertised and steriotyped tours of profit-making organizations. Everything...