Evening star., 1914-08-16

Al least 5000 American students ana
school teachers went abroad this year to
continue their
Students and Teachers studies and to
Held IN Europe. ,%poss aanco o.,en., ~ op-
portunitiss, according to estimates COM
pieted In tho United States bureau Of edu-
cation yesterday. and = largo proportion
Of this vast number ars known to be In
cluded In the small army Of travellers
from this country. who are now trapped
In Europe because Of the war. Because
exacs figures are not obtainable, the gov
ernmene experts. to be conservative. have
elected to err in the direction Of Under
estimating rather than oysrsstimating In
the preparation Of the statement on the
number OF American students and teach
ers studying abroad.
Almost every city in tho United States
has reported p the State Department
largo number Of public school teachers
who have gone to Europe for summer
study. In the opinion Of bureau Of edu-
cation experts, the most serious phase Of
the present situation is that the war
oroke 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 q vacation course" At q
French or German university. or to fol-
many. particularly, has been drawing
large numbers Of students In the higher
institutions alone 1t Is said that there are
as many students from the United States
as there are from aA other foreign ma
tons combined.
The art schools Of Paris and Rome, the
music conservatories Of Berlin and
vienna. the seminaries in literature and
pnilciogy at Gottingen. Leipzig and Berlin,
the holiday courses in language at Mad
rlo or Besancon. the pedagogic course at
jena. not to mention the large number Of
private secondary schools, some under
american and some under foreign man
agement. that cater to American BOYS
whose parents are temporarily resident in
Europe. and the tourist tutoring classes
travel with the drudgery Of work for fall
scnooI or college ''exams"-an of these
are hafd hit by the sudden war in which
Europe has been plunged.
Ane exact number OF music students
ao.o1o Is not q matter Of record. but 1t
mas neen sufnciently large in the past
year TO produce a vigorous storm Of pro
TEST from American music masters. who
ciaim that American girls have been los
ing time and money in a mad rush for
NcASoA opportunities lnaC the United
States. they say, can now give about as
we'll as Europe
In the line Of university study of in
terest to American students, the inter-
national exchange idea in education has
become a regular institution. with In
creaang numbers of definite 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 professor
ships, and there is also an exchange with
Holland. These men are not marooned In
Europe in the same sense as the sum
naer students. but It is believed that the
war 10 likely to cause serious breaks in
their work
One Of the International educational
events that will inevitably suffer because
Of the European war, in the opinion Of
federal experts. is the international con-
gress Of home education. which is sched-
uled to be held In Philadelphia next
month. and in which educators from ali
parts Of the world have been expected to
participate.