Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of these Americans lived on farms in northern Denmark; others stayed in mountain villages in Austria. But there were some common features. Each Experimenter spent a month's "homestay" living as a member of a foreign family, and a second month of group travel in his Experiment country...
...Harvard Experimenters Club, a group of active alumni of the organization estimates that there are about 80 Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates who have gone on the Experiment. The club holds weekly dinner meetings to compare experiences and discuss various phases of the Experiment's operation...
Next summer for the first time, the Experiment will penetrate the Iron Curtain and send a group to Poland, it was announced recently. It has been rumored that there are plans for an Experiment to Russia the following year.
Several of the Yugoslavs who played host to Experimenters were engineers. They had taken in an American primarily to improve their English, and had little concept of the aims of the Experiment, Lorenz said. It is often the case that American Experimenters are faced with the problem of explaining the Experiment itself as well as explaining America to their foreign hosts...
When most Experiment groups travel one young person from each host family accompanies the Americans. But since only five young Yugoslavs could make the trip, four of the older members of the families went along with the group.