Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past four summers, students from various parts of the United States have enjoyed the opportunity to travel cheaply in Europe, to form friendships with the young people of European countries, to live in their families, to learn their languages, and to enjoy with them the pleasures of European outdoor life...
...objective of Mr. Watt's organization is threefold: first, to enable young men and women from this country to form valuable contacts and lasting friendships with the youth of foreign nations, at the same time offering them opportunities of European travel at a nominal cost; secondly, to open up to them linguistic and cultural opportunities unknown in America; and thirdly, to acquaint them with the varied forms of outdoor life on the rivers and mountains of Europe. From all points of view Mr. Watt's efforts have, in past years, met with vast success...
Diametrically unlike the ordinary European sight-seeing tour, the Experiment in International Living operates on a strictly non-profit basis and aims to instill in American students a closer knowledge and appreciation of European life and customs...
With this objective in view, the program for a group of students consists of three weeks' life in a European family, followed by four or five weeks of bicycling, camping, and mountain climbing in the company of European young men and women of one's own age. Traveling expenses are extremely light. In In a preliminary game at 6.30 o'clock, the two Freshman aggregations will meet in what promises to be a close, exciting tilt...
...sighted idealism that the Experiment in International Living has never lost sight of its fundamental purpose and aim-to create lasting friendships among the youth of different nations. Since it is conducted on a non-profit basis, it has provided immeasurable benefits for scores of American students interested in European travel. I write as one who, having twice partaken in Mr. Watt's Experiment, feel that it is decidedly one of the most worth while ways in which a college student can spend his summer vacation...