Add to ORKG2. The understanding therefore is that the staff should concentrate its efforts on the actual work of the University and undertake outside war activities only in most unusual cases. The Trustees dare to hope that this will furnish the staff with a ruling which can be used by them to avoid outside work just as a similar resolution relieved the pressure on the staff from the U. S. Consul's office to serve in various capacities some fifteen years ago. 3. Since it is apparent that no additions to the American staff can be expected from America because of the transportation difficulties, the staff in Egypt should take steps immediately to re-enforce its staff from among Americans and others available in Egypt and the Near East. Further, it is ou...