The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-26
Foreign Students
Increase in y. 5.
Surveys Reveal

81 ihG national DOaru or lne |
r, Vomcn's Christian assoc!a-
..on Is the group OF men and women
=, f5rrisn nationalities VINO have |
- ,9 the United states to COM
.is,e their education. There was q
,.,,s when the foreigner in the lee
,,rs hall was regarded as somewhat
~ , novelty 10y his classmates.
since the last year OF the war how
c,er. Miss Pearson, who is head OF
,ssor'ation work with foreign |
lt.ri. has found that the situa-
49, 7, the student world has en-
.i.ai, changed. At the present time !
w., American collegiate body has all |
,sg do 10 hold %he academic fort |
.,ir.t ,hs determined onslaught OF
.Eo many strangers who are here to |
,,, tbe coveted B. a. or NJ. A.
.yo more potent influence is TO !
ne gund in the general student body |
in be country said Miss Pearson |
'.bsr that resident among those |
stgderts from other countries who
..o ,,uiur TO us in steadily increas-
,,g numbers for study in our edu-
'sf,oral institutions. The two stu
ds,t fuycrs Of the Y. W. G.. 4. at
Esrk,lay and Chicago and the one
rYp hv the Cosmopolitan club at
Columbia university have made a
,,p.rg. place for themselves. To one
over i'm the period Of one and one
boff wears over four thousand visit
ans nave come-some to look for
,,ou,s or perhaps work which
might bring i'm a few welcome dol
Ian. others Just for a social hour, |
and sim others to find the Compan-
t,rshIp from which the flyaway
American boy or girl too often bars
the auiet, studious foreigner"
In other words, these foyers serve
as h0sptalty centers. way stations,
personal service bureaus, the con-
raaBg links between work and
plst In addition, they meet the
utnv uuCiasslfiable needs of girls /
thousands of miles away from home. |
There Is little Miss Japan, tiny and |
calm OF face. Here is a story OF a |
loyeless marriage arranged after the |
custom 0f the orient. Through a |
hard struggle with poverty and un-
happiness. this little woman Is win
ming the university degree which IL |
10 open uD teaching positions in ia |
pan so that she may care for tho |
IO.vcar-old daughter waiting at !
home for her return. To her the |
fovor Is home" There was the !
pretty scnCrita from Mexico hard at |
work in busy university, later sail |
Ing for Europe to attend a peace |
conference. From all parts OF the |
world thcu come. and to each tho |
foyers are q welcome relief from /
the strange and bewildering life !
abou, them.
Formerly women students came |
70 this country almost exclusively |
from the orient" continued Miss |
Pearson. Here again there has !
within recent years been a marked /
change in the situation. There arc .
now attending our various schools |
and colleges representatives of so |
nationalities, not only studying 10 |
Ne teachers but preparing 70 enter
very profess. onal ficld-iournalism, |
dentistry. nursing. home economies,
medicine, religious education and |
social organization.
Nowhere in this country does |
there exist greater store OF poten-
tial leadership than that which may |
be fOund among the many gfoups of |
foreign students. Many OF them are |
graduates OF European universities |
and have taugh; In native schools. |
Several have been at the head OF |
educational institutions. Conse-
Quontiy, the quality of mind and
character which they represent |
, ranks high indeed. Country after
country have discovered in these |
returning students their leaders of |
new era. Furthermore, the con- |
taet between our own students and |
these strangers in their midst has |
mad SPECIAL significance for our |
own American student group.
fteludIce in this country has too |
OFTEN meant such mental isolate |
Tor the American man or woman |
mat IN many instances we have I
been criticized for hinderiuC the |
Nhole progress Of world fellowship. |
IN mingling with the knowledge |
hungry OF other nations we have ac- |
pgred n point Of view that Is con- |
shniIy widening out 10 include all !
We nations OF the earth. Inter-ra- |
Na. groups have been brought to- !
se'ner through the medium OF our |
student toyers to discuss the inter- |
Iaclal problems. This is a condi- |
uon OF affairs which cannot fail |
70 hrlng about more sincere ap- |
WeIIatlon Of the national elements |
aHa which Will be still more far /
teachlng In its progress toward an |
International understanding on the |
plrt OF the young people OF the |
present generation"
lhe committee OF friendly rela- |
,,guS which wIll be represented by |
''ss Pearson at the national con- |
r.uuoh OF the Young Women's |
un.sLan association, to he held at |
KY springs, Ark, in April. has |
uurng the last two years been in |
se use cooperation with other or |
S.uIaunns Interested i'm the well |
lv or foreign students. II has |
.1'egS.e'sInily opened TO them oppor- |
.nueS for study IN schools OF re-
,,ea,'n' ln the great industrial cen |
s ana in the ports, and so has |
n,le nale possible many a connection /
.u social as well as academic in |
a, WIN students there is always. |
W COURSE, the willingness to learn"
r.'s ,1eR Miss PEARSON, "and IL one |
Svss me-, nom ones own country. so !
,Nh more earnestly does one learn.
much more earnestly does one
-, certainly II hope for the flu
-s.y P'doe OF the world lies In tho
sg,l or International political re-
I,o"s"lps, an even more enduring
ba,.u may be found in the realm of
yossAt and ideals among those
ss's men and women from many
,HL'es who as students have
r,nt loE.ther for a better under-'I