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Show ISTUDEJiTS Americans in Europe Are Living on Charity Chari-ty in Big Cities Boston, Aug. 23 Scores of American Amer-ican college students are selling postcards post-cards in the streets of Paris and performing per-forming other humble tasks in the big cities of Europe, to get a few cents a day with which to buy soup until their families cable them funds, according to five young men who are In Boston today, after beating their way back from Europe as cattlemen, The five are Jos. Nichols, J. J. Murphy and G. A Eckhardt of the University or Pennsylvania; Gilmer Siler of Trinity Trin-ity college, North Carolina, and J. A. Smythe of St. Ignatius college, Calif. They declare that the exodus of college students to Europe was unusually unusu-ally large this summer, and said that a large proportion of those who went abroaj are now stranded In various foreign cities, "There are score of students who will be absent when the rolls are called this fall in American colleges," said Slier. "We found a number of them in Paris, willing to do almost anything in order to earn a few cent3. There are more In London, Rotterdam, Antwerp and in the cities along the Rhine. Many of them are living on charity while waiting to. hear from friends or relatives on this side." |