Word: travelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commercial purpose of the tours has contributed greatly to keep down the cost of the trips. The membership fee is $675 to $710, depending upon the location of the steamship accommodations selected. It includes ocean transportation on the S. S. "Saxonia", hotels, railroad travel, automobile and carriage drives, lectures...
...educational trips to France being organized by the Comite des Voyages d'Etudes en France, in cooperation with the Campagnie Francaise du Tourisme. The trips are designed to give students and instructors in American colleges a chance to study in French Universities and to derive the benefits of European travel at the least possible expense. Thee trips will last about ten weeks and will include, besides the regular period of study at the universities, tours of devastated area, theatrical entertainments, trips to points of interest, and many other activities designed for pleasure as well as profit...
China, as the oldest and largest of existing nations, is often said to be the most conservative, but after 18 years of residence and travel in that land I am impressed with the evidences of China's power and progress. One of the most important indications of this is the rapid development of modern education in China, in the time that I have been there. In 1903 there were only 1247 students in all schools of a modern sort under Chinese auspices, and yet, when in September, 1905, the government determined to establish a general system of public schools, before...
...tours have been established on a non-commercial basis for the purpose of enabling college students to travel in foreign countries during the summer vacations at the lowest possible cost, under capable guidance and instruction. In many cases special courtesies will be accorded to the men by the governments and universities of the countries visited...
This group of students, to which the opportunity of foreign travel is offered as a special inducement for American college youth to obtain a better acquaintance with European countries, has been organized for the summer of 1922 under the auspices of the Institute of International Education, and membership is open to students and instructors in American colleges and universities...