Evening journal., 1922-06-13
q OF D. AND THE FOREIGN STUDY PLAN


l. ware at their regular June meeting last saturda
formally approved the foreign study plan developed
President Walter Hulhen and Professor Raymond
Kirkbrlde Of the Modern Language Department b
which students interested in foreign affairs spen
their junior year in foreign university The plan is
be put into effect in 192S-1924, and the first foreis
country to considered will be France The board au
thorized Mr. Kirkbride spend the coming year
France in making the necessary investigations and es
tapiishing with the French universities an
accepted the Service Citizens of Delaware
assist in meeting the salary instructor to replac
Mr. Kirkbride during his absence abroad
This means that as soon as the system in operation
any student University OF Delaware who is IN
terested in the study foreign trade
the consular service other international affairs o
merely in the advantages OF foreign travel VIII be able
spend his junior year In foreign university under
the supervision Of member Of the Delaware faculty
The work done abroad will receive credit at the uni
versty here and the student will return TO Delaware te
finish his senior year and graduate with his class
Professor Kirkbride to University Of Delaware
in October, 1919 Previously he. had had one year in
the service overseas spent four months at the Uni
versity Grenobe in France under the United states
Government plan of sending college men from the A.
F. F. TO foreign universities while waiting TO be de-
modified in the spring OF 1919 In the summer OF
$40, Professor Kirkbride returned to Grenoble He
spent the summer 1921 Paris and first presented
the foreign study plan to Dr. Hullhen January 1921
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The project is an innovation in the educational world
Americans have not studied in foreign univer
stiles before those that have done so were gradu-
ate or research students and Of them will
ever 60 business. The Delaware plan Is for UNDER
graduates The great mass OF American college men
never any postgraduate work, but enter business
Immediately the usual four years in college Since
the great war the importance of the foreign part
OF our national has created the necessity OF hav
ing trained college trained men, to handle our
foreign affairs The Delaware plan is Intended to pro-
vide this foreign training and will do 1t within the four
years that the can devote to college edu-
cation.
France is the country to be visited, and those
studying French interested in French-speaking ma
ons will be the profit by the plan. The pioneer
group students will be sent to France for the schoo
year 1923-1924 under the personal direction of Mr
Kirkbrde The members OF the group will be Juniors
chosen this years freshmen, class of 1925
and they will spend their entire junior year at the IA
NOUS University Paris 1t is expected that the group
will number from eight ten. Mr.. Krkbrde will take
them to France in July 1923. remain with them
throughout the year. and accompany them back to |
Delaware in July 1924. where they will be ready for
their senior year.
According to present program the students will
arrive in France about August l, 1928 They will first
be given three hours day of intensive drill under
French tutor for entire month of August to give
them the necessary facility with the
Next they given two months OF preparatory work
at the Alliance Franchise during September and octo-
ber TO get them accustomed to following the courses
and lectures as conducted in French. Then they will
enter the University OF Paris at the beginning Of the
term November will remain there until the close
of the French school year. June 80, 1924. They will
take as nearly as possible the subjects that they
would have taken their junior year at Delaware ex-
cept of that everything will be done in French
instead of English.
During their stay in Paris the boys will and
board in private homes, only boy being assigned TO
a family. This will the temptation to Eng
sh and will give constant practice in speaking French.
Il will also give them the opportunity OF getting &C
,uainted with some OF the best French people.
The cost OF trip will be extremely reasonable II
hoped to transportation both ways for
he boys without charge TO them. which removes Of
he largest items Living in France. though higher
han before war, is still not high in America
onsdering present of exchange. The student
will be his scale of expenditures but
is estimated that the cost the months
broad will not exceed by than 20 per the L
ost OF a nine month at Delaware equlva- '
mt standard Of living. q,
one OF the most valuable Of the trip will :
he opportunity the important sights Of France
n the commercial world there the big silk mills L
yons the glove factories Grenobe. the ship
ing at Marseilles and the great workshops
ess houses OF Paris other attractions the
eheds the Alps the famous Paris and the won
erful museums galleries, and cathedrals All of II
lese in OF near be enjoyed almost without C
,st and the be reached at very small
snse. 2
The benefits to be derived from years work g
Re obvious The student will really speak French as
e never could learn speak it in this country He
i'll be made familiar with the literature, history and
geography France. and will have hrst-hand &C Fl
lantance with its products, markets politics. and III
aiding men. He will finish his studies at II
elaware with greatly broadened judgment and in
'eased efficiency III
If the students purpose be the culture foreign
avel he will gain conception Of what is going II
n France and Europe will seem so re- II
tote he will be able study foreign questions in
diligently IN
If he plans definite foreign career his French will Fl