Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-08-29
Are being finished abroad. &"

students were caught IN Europe this
year, where they had gone to improve
their educational opportunities. This
thing of beng finished abroad IS a
disappearing necessity" and as a mat
ter Of fact a number Of torign students,
including those partlculariysfrom South
America, who come tos-ipstitutions in
the United States to secure its educat-
ional advantages, are greatly in excess
OF the number that have been gong to
Europe. Among the principal pilgrims
TO foreign founts OF knowledge, have
been the American teachers, and al
most every city in the United States
has reported to the State Department a
argesnumber of public school teachers
who have gone to Europe for summer
study. In the opinion of bureau of
education experts, the most serious
phase of the present situation is that
war broke out just IN time to catch the
large rush of summer students, most of
whom reached Europe by the middle
OF July. Many American students and
teachers take advantage of the summer
season to go through a vacation
course" at a French or German univer-
slty, or to follow the summer semester.
Germany. particularly. has been draw
ing large numbers of students, In the
higher Institutions alone It is SAID that
there are as many students from Unit
ed States as there are from all other
foreign nations combined.
The art schools of Paris snd Rome,
the music conservatores of Berlin and
Vienna, the semlnarles in literature in
and Philology at Gottingen, Leipzlg
and Berlin. the holiday courses in Ian
Euage at Madrid or Besancon, the pc
dagogic at ana. not to mention the
large number OF private secondary
schools. some under American and some
under foreign management, that cater
to American boys whose parents are
temporarily resident IN Europe, and
tie tourist tutoring classes that COM
blne the pleasures of European travel
with the drudgery of work for fail
school or college exams all of those
are hard hit by the sudden war n which
Europe has been plunged.
The exact number'ot music students
abroad is not a matter of record. but it
has been sufficiently large in the past
year to produce a vigorous storm of
protest from American music teachers.
who claim that American girls have
been losing time and money in a mad
rush for musical opportunities that the
United States. they say can now give
about as well as Europe.
In the line of university study of IN
terest to American students. the inter
national exchange idea in education
has become regular institution, with
increasing numbers of dednate arrange
ments for exchange, all the way from
professors down to students. Various
American universities have an Austrian
interchange of professors, several have
French and German exchange profess
orshias. and there is also an exchange
with Holland. These men are not ma
rooned in Europe in the same sense as
the summer students. but it is behev.
ed that the war Is likely to cause ser
ious breaks in their work.
One of the international educational
events that wlll inevitably suffer be
cause of the European war. in the opir,
ION of federal experts is the inter
national congress- OK home education
which is scheduled to be he,d in rhll
adeipma next month. ana IN which ed
ecators from all parts of the world
have been expected to participate.
Yoa VIII always find a complete
sock of Edison and Victor Victroia in
struments and music at Triplett's.
Ironwood