Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Consequently, they are often obliged to fall back, though they may not wish to do so, on association with their fellow countrymen and on conversation in their native languages. Thus, particularly in the first and most difficult year for foreign students in the University, when the struggle should be made as easy as possible for them, they find their difficulties greatest...
...foreign student has difficulty in understanding his lecturers; yet he must be graded according to the American standard. He is practically cut off from association with American students, and consequently from any advantageous opportunity to change his reading knowledge of English into the necessary speaking and hearing knowledge. Thus the chief obstacle between the interesting in body of foreign students and the American students, who really feel very friendly toward them, is simply this ignorance of spoken English on the part of foreigners and this lack of continuous helpful association between...
...remedy is very obvious. The College should every year reserve at least one room in each entry of every dormitory for occupation by a foreign...
dent, so that a man arriving here--say--from Japan just before the College opens in the fall would have no difficulty in securing quarters among the American students. And every group of men reserving a table at the College Commons should invite some foreign student to sit at their table...
These simple, practical remedies for what both foreign and American students feel is an uneasy situation would soon tend to make Harvard the most desirable America university for foreign students, because it would show them not only the real friendliness of Americans, in which they can now hardly believe, but the practical foresight of the College organization and of the student body. The increase in enrollment of foreign students in successive years would very quickly reward us for these small considerations. T. L. HOOD