Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over a 17 year period the EIL has spent approximately 2600 American students abroad. Last summer 24 students now at Harvard made trips to England, France, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy...
...Experiment is two-fold. The long-range aspect of the probram is to "create an atmosphere" of goodwill between nations in which the world's problems may be solved peacefully. The second aim, which is really a means toward the overall goal, is to promote friendship and understanding between American students and their foreign counterparts and to permit students to study the people and culture of one country each summer...
...formula used towards these aims is to place each American student in the home of a foreign family with a boy or girl his or her age. After one month of living with families, 10 American boys and girls invite their 10 hosts on a two-week walking, cycling, or camping trip. The final two weeks are spent doing something of particular interest, such as attending the Shakespeare Festival or the Salzburg concerts...
...easy to make friends with people whose ideas are different, whose language we find easy to misunderstand. Sometimes they feel that we live up to our American reputation for being crude. Sometimes things happen which rub us very much the wrong way. It takes good will, patience and humilty to really make friends...
...Harvard, the Student Council, the Liberal Union, and the American Veterans Committee have written Washington on the matter, but none of these groups have yet received any replies...