The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
light of knowledge, now gleamlns

cruelty. light of knowledge, now sleamins hopefully. ..
 Although Cuba is protectorate or the United States, it is not a part or them. and students from Cuba are Tn nra actically the same position as any other foreign students in this country. The Cubans of the educated classes with their heritage of a fine culture from Spain, when that country was m its glory, come to us not as nttie cnii- dren learning the ways of an entirely different type of civilization to take the place of one so old that 1t no longer advances, but as equals ploudly ready to learn those things in which we'have made the greatest strides.
 Son of a professor of organic chemi- stry in the University of Havana, Francisco Jose Henares came to this country about four years ago as well educated in his own language as any Of our high school students, but without knowledge of English, and entered the GeorgiQ Military academy.
 After three months with little pro- gress in English and feeling of the lack of friendliness on the part of the Americans he left Atlanta discouraged and wishing to return to Cuba but in accordance with his fathers advice he came to New Haven to make an- other try and entered the New Haven nigh school.
 Here he found things radically diff ferent and said. Thanks to, the kind ness of some of my fellow students in the high school I picked up English very quickly and easily" and this provNd by his use of the language which, in- dicates a greater knowledge of the language than that possessed by many Americans, and could not be told for other than his native tongue but for certain unusual connotation and stress ing of his words.
 Because of the proximity of the two countries and the similarity of many of their ways Henares found no great change in coming to the United States. In regard to prohibition he agrees with Many Americans, saying: "1 fail to see the object of prohibition, the way it is enforced in the United States, where rich men may get drinks and the poor cannot, I see much more drunkenness in America than in Cuba, and the only drunks that I saw in Cuba at Christmas time were Americans"
 Finds Us HOspitable
 He finds that the people of the north are very democratic and willing to help other people in every way that they can. Americans are hard and cold on the surface, but it is only a veneer or mask" !" he said. "They are on the whole very kindly and good hearted"
 'There is an impression on the part of some people that foreign students make a better showing in their schol- astic work than the native American students do. This if really the case is to be explained by the fact that the foreign students who come here are intensely in earnest and have gone to great trou- ble to study in America and are a picked group. An average of Cuban students in Cuba or or any other nation ality in it's own country would be about the same as that of the American stu dents," according to Henares.
 ] Henares is junior in the Sheffield Scientific school, now studying engineer ing science and intends to become an architect, but he does not know yet whether he will return to Cuba to prac- tice or remain in this country. That is still too remote to decide he be- lieves.
 A Modern Athenian
 Among a host of other changes in the order arising from the World war have been various readjustments of the usual educational methods and customs in European countries, especially among those in the habit of sending students abroad for final education.
 1 Before the war Peter T. Dracopoulos would in all probability have gone to Germany or England for his education but because of it he has come to Yale, where he is studying electrical en- gineering.
 q am here because of the extremely unsettled conditions in the Balkans where education opportunities are ex- tremely limited because the government spends SO much in continual warfare and putting down revolutions that it has nothing to spend on education,' Dracopoulos said.
 He went on to say: "There is little opportunity for students in Greece, only the very rich can afford to go to school and in order to complete ones education 1t Is necessary to go abroad because there is no good school in Greece. A | AuoA AAunt cALucT SO CO SCuOo1 UT HoA n it is not possible to do both as it is here. America offers much larger op. portunitieS to students of limited means"
 Few Americans know very much about Siam, yet enough is known about America by the Siamese to cause them to send 70 students to the United States for higher education. The first of these to come to Yale as an undergraduate student and the second to ever come tC the university at all, is Sutchitra Vad- hama Banij, of Bangkok, Siam. 1 Banij studied in the Siamese govern ment schools, analogous to our high schools, and upon completing the course there came to this country to attend Exeter for two years to attain suffi cient commband of English to be able tC grasp the presentation of abstract ideas in university courses without the handi cap of merely being able to understand simple conversational English.
 | Copyright, 1924, New Haven Register. J
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