Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bank of New York has established a "business fellowship". This fellowship enables students selected by the universities and colleges of the country to spend their summer vacations in training in the National City Bank during their course in college, and is creating opportunities for men in the field of foreign banking unlimited in their possibilities...
More specifically, the desired plan of co-operation includes international equivalence of degrees and credits, travelling fellowships, exchange-professors, missions and study-hours, and special courses for foreign students in France...
Among the most recent advances is the creation of the American Expeditionary Force Schools in France and England. In addition to the benefits derived from these institutions by the army, the countries in which the schools are established receive the advantage of the educational stimulus of foreign blood and foreign blood and foreign ideas. A pertinent manifestation of the international education is the exodus of soldiers of the American army to the college from which John Harvard came, for already many men who have had two years of American college experience have permanently enrolled in Emanuel College in England...
...time. Although semi-permanent in character, this equipment is amazingly complete. Barring the 60,000 text-books and 40,000 books which comprise the Library, nothing has been sent from this side of the water. Without aid from home, except in this one regard, these Americans in a foreign country have produced from the resources at hand a complete ready-made university, whose 10,000 students have 200 study courses to choose from, and whose instructors number 500 thoroughly qualifed men, all of them trained teachers, some of them America's best...
...such a rapid and mature educational growth as Beaune University can be produced and made to function by a group of Americans in a foreign country, 3,000 miles away, as it were, from their base, surely those interested in or connected with American universities are given food for much valuable thought Perhaps the same interest, the same initiative and creative energy which called Beaune University so miraculously into being, could perform equally great deeds, if employed in connection with many of the older educational institutions at home. At least the creation of Beaune, involving as it must have done...