Evening star., 1923-12-27
SEEK TO CUT COST
OF STUDY ABROAD
Foreign Service Training
Conference Plan to Group
Students for Travel.

Plans were formulated looking to
grouping together all students OF
foreign service in American universl-
ties for a more economical way of
straveling abroad considered essen
tial in the work, at conference on
foreign service training held yester-
day and last evening at the New VIII
lard Hotel. The conference was
forerunner of the combined CONFER
ence on agricultural, economical ana
statistical affairs. which opened To-Day.
1t was pointed out at the meeting
that certain of the colleges and uni
versities in this country which nave
foreign service training as a MAJOR
subject now. have tried the expert
ment of including foreign traNei AS
a necessary part OF the course. uu'
have found the expenses too great.
A committee of fifteen on educa-
tional preparation for foreign serv-
ice, which fostered the conference,
was charged with investigating the
possibility of grouping all such stu.
dents for foreign pilgTimages- Eleven
colleges and 5000 new students have
taken up this work in the past year.
the meeting was told.
That professors and students OF
the foreign service schools shoul1
SDend
eign lands was held as an invaluable
aid to students by the speakers on
the program yesterday afternoon.
The papers that were reau also
stressed in particular the great nm
portance of the study of foreign
languages and market geography.
The chairman of the conference
was DR.. Glen Levin Swiggett OF the
United States bureau of educaHoh:
DIR. l.. s. Rowe, director general OF
the Pan-American Union, was chair.
man of the afternoon session, at
which the following persons spoke:
Eugene Van Cleef of the Ohio state
University. Rev. w. Coleman NEVIS,
5. j., of Georgetown university
School of Foreign Service, Anton ,s ae
Haas of New York University, Frank
r. Rutter of Dartmouth College ana
G. r. Roorach of Harvard University.
The viewpoint of the government In
respect to the education designed TO
fit men for foreign service was ols-
cussed by those in touch with the re-
uuirements at thet evening sessions.
The schools of foreign service as con,
Quoted in American colleges ana
schools was highly praised by all or
the speakers in the evening, VINO
were: William s. Culbertson. chalr-
man of the United States Tariff Com
. mission; Edward l.. Bacher OF the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
L. Dana Durand of the bureau OF for-
eign and domestic commerce ana
Wilbur G. Carr, director or the con-
sular service. The evening sessions
was under the chairmanship of VIII
liam F. Notz, dean of the school or
foreign service at Georgetown Uni
yersity.
Georgetown Represented.
Georgetown University School of
Foreign Service is well represented
at the national conference being held
at the Willard Hotel on training in
foreign service.
DIR. Swigett is a member of the
Georgetown faculty, and all the
membefs of the reception committee
are also represented on the faculty
of the local schools besides many of
the active participants in the con-
ference.
Among the GEORGETOWN faculty
members who are taking active parts
ference are Dr. William +. Notz of
the Federal Trade Commission. dean
OF the school; DR.. L. S. Rowe, di-
rector general of the Pan-American
Union; Edward Bacher of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, DR..
William S. Culbertson. vice chairman
of the United States Tariff Commis-
sion; Thomas H. Healy, assistant
dean. Among former faculty men,
bers of the Georgetown school who
addressed yesterdays sessions were
Eugene Van Cleef of Ohio University,
DIR. Frank r. Rutter of Dartmouth
and DIR. G. B. Roorbach of the Har-
ward School of Business Research.
Rev. w. Coleman Nevils, S. j., re-
gent of the Foreign Service School,
who addressed the conference last
night. left Washington afterward on
a tour of the Pacific coast in the in
terests of the endowment drive for
Georgetown University.