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| tried 70 persuade MIN 10 go 10 Nfermany,
where there was a fellowship available.
But no: this young man-and his par
ents as well-had a strong distaste for
everything German. Hadn't We just
| fought the Huns? He would have none
of them.
Stephen Duggan is very persuasive.
| The young man eventually went TO Ger
many. He boarded with the family of
| German professor. His first letter to
Dr.. Duggan expressed surprise-appar-
emily there were some fine people
among these Germans. His second let
ter, several months later, showed very
cordial attitude toward things German.
His third letter. at the end of the year,
was enthusiastic. He had seen and I'M
| derstood.
Association Of Students.
In France there IS an association Of
French students who have studied I'M
| der fellowships III America. II now
numbers $50. And" says Or. Duggan,
sit has done yeoman service in making
| the United States better understood by
| the French people, especially in times
when irritation has existed between the
two countries" There are similar as
! Sociations in other countries, and they
are all helpful in making us better I'M
derstood abroad. The United States is
not above the need for friendly under
| standing by foreigners. Nor, for that
| matter, is France or Italy or England
or Japan or India. All of us need all
/ the understanding we can lay our hands
| on.
That is why the Institute dug up in
| formation from American colleges and
| universities showing for the first time
just how many foreign students there
are studying in the United States. Dur
ing the college year 1929 the number
was $685.. 1t had increased by more
| than so per cent since 1922. These
students came from 81 countries. They
represent . most significant contact of
all the world with America. There
were, for instance, Al from Australia,
1,l22 from Canada, / ,2s7 from China,
81 from Denmark, ri from Egypt, 800
from Germany, IL from Guiana, 81
from Holland, from Iceland, 213 from
India, Is from Irak, 215 from Italy, o14
from Japan, 3 from Liberia, 271 from
Mexico, 80 from Persia, sol from Rus
STA. rs from Spain, 30 from Switzerland,
SO from Syria, so from Turkey.
| While it was getting this information
the institute also made the first COM
plete survey showing all the fellowships
and scholarships open to foreign stu
dents for study in the United States and
i
in foreign countries. The number is
surprisingly large; the list fills $50 book
size pages. There are fellowShips for
almost anything that anybody would
want to study. practical or theoretical,
from agriculture through the alphabet
to zoology.
Stephan Duggan keeps an appraising
eye on many another aspect Of interna-
tional education, gives the help of the
| irCtjtlltn uhnraVAP n ran ha ~ value
For example, the recent practice started
by the University of Delaware, and ex-
tended by Smith College, of sending
undergraduates abroad to spend their
junior year in supervised study in a
foreign country. This, too, was con-
fined to those who could afford 1t and
to Delaware and Smith students. The
Committee on Foreign Travel and
Study donated nine full fellowShipS and
20 partial fellowships that will cover
the cost Of transportation.
Open to Juniors.
They are administered by the insti-
college in the country.
The work student movement Is an
other new idea in international educa-
ton. Work students are selected indi-
viduals, all university graduates, who
are admitted to the United States out
side the immigration quotas to study
American industrial and business meth
DDS. They work for a year or two
years In an American manufacturing
plant or business ONCE and then 60
back home to become managers and ex-
| ecutives. But with their noses to the
industrial grindstone they may leave
America knowing nothing about the
broader aspects Of American culture
except the unacceptable jazz and movies.
1 d. 4wakm kaI d. tVaaw
| TO 1t that they spend some time in
contact with the richer things in Amer
lean life. He is chairman of COM
| mittee selected from the various agen-
cieS that have charge OF these keen
young foreigners.
There is, again, the great new migra-
ton Of American students TO Europe
during the Summer months. Many Of
| the travellers get nothing out OF the
trip except some superficial sightseeing,
possibly taste OF Old World dissipa-
tons. DIR. Duggan has been interested
| in getting the colleges to give their
students some real help in planning
| these jaunts.
During the war the system of ex-
change. professorships existing between
some American and European univer-
stiles broke down. 1t was much too
valuable q part of international educa-
| ton to lose 1t seemed to Stephen
Duggan that it could be revived In q
different and maybe g better form.
Why. for instance, conflne 1t to pro-
fessors? Certainly there were others
who had something vital to say to
American students. And why confine
| 1t to the larger universities?
| SO this also was included among the
institute activities. Now distinguished
| foreigners of many professions besides
teaching are circuited among our col
| leges and universities for lectures and
conferences. Some Of them visit four
| or five places, some IS. but they do not
stick to New York or Chicago or Phila-
| delphia, they go as well to little towns
in Iowa, Kansas, Texas. There was
recently, for example. the Right Hon.
Herbert Fisher, Lloyd Georges minis
ter Of education, and Hjalmar Schacht,
president of the German Reichsbank,
and DR.. Alfredo Colmo, chief justice
of the Supreme Court of Argentina,
and DR.. TSurumi of the Japanese Diet.
Stephen Duggan is host as well 70
many another foreigner visiting the
United States to study some aspect Of
our work, our life The Duchess of
Atholl Great Britain's parliamentary
secretary for education, came here to
study experimental methods in Ameri-
can schools DR.. Duggan saw to 1t that
she went wherever significant work
was being done He is probably Ameri-
cas- busiest writer of letters OF intro
duction. His list of friends and &C
uuaintances would read like an inter-
national blue book. What do you want