Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-08
STUDENTS FROM NATIONS
American Colleges Attract a Large
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American Colleges Attract n Large
Number.
According to the records OF the bureau Of
American republics at Washington, there
are several thousand students from Central
and South American countries in the coll
leges and technical schools OF the United
States.
More and more the southern republics are
awakening to the fact that much of their
future prosperity must come through their
great undeveloped natural resources which
are to be taken over or discovered and ex-
plotted by their own people. To this end
nearly every republic to the south of the
United States in the western hemisphere
has officially In this country from one to
thirty students. whose expenses are met by
their government, while the number OF stu
dents who study here Of their owl volitlon
and at their own expense cannot be known,
but is estimated to be several thousand.
Until the last few years the United States
have not been more favored by these stu
dents as a country In which to seek knowl-
edge than many OF the countries Of Europe.
1t is now asserted by those who have looked
into the subject that the United States are
getting the largest number OF these stu
dents because they find the colleges, indus
aibi diiO icCutllCA SCDOOtb Ol tnie Country
better adapted in their curriculums to the
needs Of western countries. Undoubtedly,
the endeavors OF the United States govern
ment to establish a better understanding
with the republics to the south has done
much to attract these students also.
A compilation Of Central and South Amer
lean students now attending educational in
stitutions in the United States at the ex-
pense of their governments has recently
been made with the following results:
Argentine Republic supports thirty stu
dents in the United States. divided between
the Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology,
Worcester Polytechnic institute. Cornell
university, University of Pennsylvania, New
York State university. Ohio State univer-
sity, Drexel institute and the Chicago Vet
Urinary college.
Bolivia, Brazil and Chile all have stu
dents in this country maintained by the
home government. Costa RIGA, which
claims more teachers than soldiers within
its borders, supports twenty-one students
In the United States. located as follows:
Pratt institute, Tufts college. Louisiana
State university, South Bethlehem, Penn
s~ylvania, jefferson Medical college, Phila-
delphia; Harvard university of Pennsyl-
vania. Lehigh, New York university. Bald
win Locomotive works, Cornell and Gal
weston hospital.
A number of Cuban students are sup
ported in the United States by the gov
errors of provinces, but none by the Cuban
general government. TIL province OF
Havana has five such students at Cornell.
The others are at Hampton, the University
of West Virginia and elsewhere. Sixty
eight Ecuadorans are studying in the United
States, twenty-eight of whom are supported
by the government.
Mexico has fourteen government students
In the United States of whom eight are in
New York and Boston. The other six are
young army officers supported at Forts
Riley and Leavenworth, Kansas. by the
Department of War and Navy. Nicaragua
has four students here; Panama. fifteen;
Paraguay, nine, and Peru, eleven.