The Washington times., 1914-10-20
AMERICAN COLLEGES
SEE OPPORTUNITIES
Efforts Being Made to Attract
South American Students to
United States.
BY ANNIS SALISBURY.

Data as to the registration Of South
American pupils in the schools Of the
United States is abundant enough to
lead Americans to look for some amaz-
ing figures Of foreign registration when
the universities have completed the stu
dent attendance for the present year
There were 4.222 students from foreign
lands attending American educational
institutions during 1913 OF. these, 233
came from Mexico. 209 from Cuba. q
from Costa Rica- Is from Guatemala,
IL from Honduras, IS from Nicaragua,
Is from Panama. and 10 from Salvador.
The Argentine Republic sent 43 stu
dents. Brazil 113. Bolivia 3. Chile II,
Colombia 81, Ecuador 16. Paraguay 2,
Peru Is, Uruguay 2. and Venezuela Z.
Nearly 800 European students at
tended schools in the, United States.
Germany sent 122 and Great Britain
and Ireland 212. Russia sent the next
largest contingent. and every other
country of Europe was represented.
down to Montenegro. with its one stu
dent.
With the present enbroglio in Eu-
rope interfering with the proper main
tenance Of its universities and higher
educational institutions. American uni
versities have an opportunity to demon
strate a capacity for intellectual leader
ship declares DR.. Philander P. Clax-
ton, United States Commissioner of
Education whether the war contin-
ues three months or three years. our
obligations and opportunities to take the
lead in educational and civilization will
be the same, and America should re-
spond by Offering the best opportunity
In the world for her own students and
for those who may come from other
countries
American Schools Best.
Approaching the proximity of this
golden opportunity to send American
culture we'll into lead, the Bureau of
Education is making herculean efforts
to measure up to the situation. Amer
lean higher institutions of learning are
already tho best in the world, according
to DR.. s. P. Chapen. specialist Of higher
education in the National Bureau of
Education, who is starting campaign
to attract foreign students to the schools
Of the United States.
lmes Bryce, former ambassador of
Great Britain to the United States, has
declared recently that the universities
Of Britain are free but not popular. the
universities Of Germany are popular but
not free, but the State universities of
America. which are in this country, are
both free and popular.
1t is generally conceded that the
United States takes the lead in educa-
tional equipment, and that while the
scientific output of the German institu-
lions surpasses that of the United
States. the instructors in American uni
versities have a much higher average
of teaching ability. Attendants at
American schools get a better mental
training than II they came under the
direct instruction of an Eucken, a Win
dleband, or a Brenno Erdmann.
In fact. the increase in opportunity
within the last two decades for gradu-
ate study and research and for pro-
fessional and technical education
has been much greater than most people
in America realize. The agricultural,
medical and engineering departments of
American universities surpass those
same departments in any other schools
the world over. The Wanted advant-
ages Of the medical schools at Vienna
are due II Is said, to the enlarged OPP
portunity to observe the diseases that
are described in the lectures. but not
to any superiority over the American
university in medical equipment.
Seizing Opportunity.
Enthusiastic over the educational ad-
vantages they have to offer. the United
States Bureau of Education is pre-
pairing to take advantage of the op-
portunity by preparing a comprehensive
bulletin describing the features of the
various schools in this country. to be