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Show CHILI to n PROFESSORS 10 CALIFORNIA II BKRKi;LEV, Cal.. Oct 21 Ratification Ratifica-tion by the government of Chile anel tJv Universlt) of Chile of plans for the nc-ehuife nc-ehuife Ot professor.' .Tncl instructors be-iwfrn be-iwfrn the United stutea and the South Amerlean republic has been effccte.1 by offlelal decree of the Chilean government govern-ment necordlnK to recent arlvleos to the j University of California. That .in appropriation of $12 000 (or the coming year has been provided under the decree signed by President Sir-tuetrtes Sir-tuetrtes of Chile Is announced in the I communication the University, which further Ktutes that both the president of the University of Chile and minister ot Instruction FVihlo Ramirez have announced announc-ed their readiness to receive as the first exchange professor from the United States Charles F Chapman, associate professor of Hispanic-American history ut the University of California Chill's Official rntlfirnllon of the ix- iiunc piofe.xsoi project marks the1 fir" definite result of plans of tho late Professor Pro-fessor Henry Morse Stephens whereby the University of California was to become be-come the center of exchanges of profes-.ors- and students With the leading HlS-panlc HlS-panlc countries of the world, and for the study of the history nnd oop tempo rarj problems of Spain and Portugal, and more particularly the Hispunic republics in the two continents of the Americas. Professor Profe-ssor Stephen had also been Instrumental in opening discussion with a view to a series of exchansps between the University Univer-sity ot California and the National University Un-iversity of Mexico A committee of distinguished educators educa-tors from the Chilean republic, headed by Dr. Don Pedro Aguirre. arrived in Berkeley early this year and proposed a series of permanent exchanges not only Of professors of universities, but also I of teachers of high schools and technical 1 schools, Including women as well as men. Senor Aqulrre's committee fU'.'ther proposed pro-posed to make u.s of the University of j California as a clearing-house whereby i the University should arrange for all ox- j changes in this country Approval of th plan was announced by President Den-jamln Den-jamln Ido Wheeler of tho University ot California and the regents of the unl- i verslty voted to accept it It Is this arrangement which has he- ' come effective by the recent degree of President Bantuertes of Chile The exchanges arc not bo be limited to professors of the University of Call- ' tomla or even leachors in the schools of the stale. In each year there arc to be not loai than to or more than four ex'.hanc professors or Instructors from each country, of whom one at the most Is to , exchange with a, professor of the University Uni-versity of Chile, however, the egchange ai the outset will e limited to two from 1 Chile and the Cnltcd States repectivi ! While Professor Chapman of th Uni- i verslty of California will be the first United States exchange professor, it is I said the first exchange Instructor vi:l bo E. M. Gregory of the San Francisco Polytechnic nigh Behoof. His appointment. appoint-ment. It is stated. WOuld be pocnllarlv flttiiiK because of Ills thorough know!-! I edge of Spanish arid beeause of his re-jlalioishop re-jlalioishop to a distinguished Spanish Callfomlan family. His grandfather. William Ilarlnell. one of the distinguished men In California during Mexican era, resided in Chile prior to coming to Altai allfornts In 122. He was related by marriage to the famous. De la Gucrra family. Ieuvc of absence has been granted 10 Professor Chapman as exchange pro-lessor pro-lessor from January 1520 to Janu.-. j 1521. 1 , |