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...Telford Erickson, Director of the Albanian-American School of Agriculture will give an illustrated lecture at the Lyman House, 25 Follen Street, to night at 8 o'clock...
...Telford Erickson, the Director of the Albanian-American School of Agriculture, will give his illustrated lecture at Lyman House, 25 Follen Street, on Thursday evening March 8, at 8 o'clock. Thirty-three million people populate the territory of the Balkans and the Near East, of whom thirty million are for the most part, illiterate, half-starved, neglected peasantry, "Brothers to the ox" in the words of Dr. Erickson. This school and one other at Salonika are the only schools under American patronage serving this abandoned class...
...frequently happens," said Dr. Erickson to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "That an insignificant pawn becomes the deciding factor in the great chess game of nations; chess however is child's play compared to the complexities of Balkan politics. Because of her helplessness, her half-developed state, her strategic location, a blow at Albania shakes the entire body of Europe...
...seeking the practical solution to Albania's acute problem, Dr. Erickson recognizes two major needs; the first is for capital to be invested in her rich natural resources; the second is for education. To meet this second requirement Dr. Erickson has opened his American Agricultural School. The Albanian government supplied him with 1000 acres of land. It was confiscated, Dr. Erickson has been an exile with a price on his head; a few years later however he represented Albania at the peace conference...
...present", added Dr. Erickson, "the school is thriving in spite of the great difficulties--earthquakes, torrential rains and lack of equipment--against which it has had to contend. Several buildings are now under construction, and the boys' dormitory, is already accupied...