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wove-enU. I probaUjr viotatedmenU ***** 'Wing ,lC0| remains of » L l " kirn) ;y-prc> I 1(1 rotftt gOtt- tO tin rh of cold meat which I did not id ildrcn P tod * ^ l h V t ^ « n y j " t glimpte o f the Jo: d * , h „ h ^ from the Sea of Galilee just here, and a f e w minutes later, w e sa.d fan well tj the lovely lake, and began to penetrate a gorge, following a raoui,!,,n s!r uhich proved to be the Yarmulc, a tributary of ih<- Jordan, and a most pictur< s ne stream. Following this gorge.to the^top brought u s into another fan every directioi ich name and u n . In about two hours w e reached the main Inn <>i ihe Transjordania

railway, and were coupled to a throu^li train from Medina to Damascus. 'Phi's whole country was interesting as a contrast to dalilce, though not w beautiful. The mountains of Hauran stnt. bed like a great wall on the eastern horizon and in the far north we had our first •.limpse oi the I. 'anon range, with

w see day before en route to Capernaum. We were ijomg through the country of the Druses, those strange people who have in recent years made things rather unpleasant for the French in Syria, for by this time we had crossed the Syri ,tli cust " frontier, had complied with customs and passport formalities, and were actually in Syria. By eight o'clock: we had arrived at the station in Damascus, and I was y for dinner and bud ready IUI uiiiuci aim i«eu, at the end of two very "perfect days." My two days in Damascus and my journey to Beirut across Mt. Lebanon must wait for telling at some future date.

Urbana, Illinois 21 November, 1932 SCHOOL N E W S

FRANCES SIMPSON

Placement—All Library Schools would be glad to find themselves in the paradise described in Gaylord's Triangle of June, 1932, as follows: A FAIRY STORY While graduates of the different colleges of education in the city who majored in other subjects have found it difficult to land jobs, those who majored in library science have had jobs thrust upon them. The demand for trained teacher-librarians is so great at present that the Bureau of Education has given library positions even to those who only minored in library science —The Library Mirror, University of the Philippines, Manilla, P. I. ^ i.c,V ! i xr the graduates of our W V e n m a n y o f o u r o l d e r a , u m n i find t h ™ it 2 ' u n e n ' *?o m e n a t cut budgets have l Mth I? ?P y t for them. The brunt of the depression is bring felt by all ages by experienced as well as by inexperienced people * One hundred students received t-h* R S in T S in t o w £ were placed by the office, f o u r ^ n f ^ l f t S ^ ^ t i ^ f J S e S d ^ seventeen returned to positions in libraries in which they had foVmerlv worked, and four are employed in other fields. Considerable c o r r e s n o n ^

n 0r tUnately COnditions are not the same for

one was placed by the office, and four have no work employment, the , u m m mav n 0 A-*! ?* .? , o t know that the Library School is lartrelv dependent upon them for aid in placement in that the SchoolOffice & not circularize the field to lea™ ~t , „ , . ; « T« ,.«„ ' _ ' vvmcc aoes

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