Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 265.
Mr. Evarts to Mr. White.

Department of State,
Washington, March 12, 1880.

No. 76.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 87, of the 2d ultimo, in relation to spurious diplomas issued by a so-called “American University at Philadelphia,” and reporting the injury which the practice of issuing such diplomas is doing to the reputation of our country in Germany.

In reply, I have to inform you that I have communicated copies of your dispatch and of its inclosures to the Secretary of the Interior, with an expression of the hope that it may be found practicable to devise measures, through the Bureau of Education, or otherwise, for the effectual suppression of the practice in question.

I am, &c.,

WM. M. EVARTS.