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Speaker Will Discuss International Summer Camp Activities in America

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International summer camps in America will be dominated is as N.S.A. meeting at 8 p.m. tonight is Phillips Brooks House. John Glaess of the Lisle Fellowships will speak on his group's program under which students from foreign countries and from the United States live together is international communities.

The Lisle Fellowship will operate four units this summer--in California, Colorado, Colorade, Michigas and Connecticut. Men at the camps participate in the usual summer activities, such as hiking and athletics, and divide all work on a co-operative basis.

In addition to lectures and formal discussion groups, the summer program centers around "team visits" to cities and towns within several hundred miles of the camp.

During these visits the students work on activities of the organization that sponsors their visit to the town. In the past this work has included taking a survey on a local problem.

The Lisle program was founded in 1936; in the time since then more than 1,500 persons have attended a Lisle unit.

The work of Lisle in America compares with the activities in foreign countries of the Experiment in International Living.

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