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...International Students Tours have been established as a non-commercial undertaking for the purpose of enabling American college students and instructors to travel in foreign countries at minimum cost, and under conditions which permit a close contact with the people and institutions of the countries visited. These tours represent merely a new application of the program which the Institute of International Education has been carrying out for many years in the direction of a closer international understanding through educational opportunities a program which in the past has been characterized by such activities as international exchange professorships and scholarships, the exchange...
Business candidates, whose work consists chiefly of advertising, have an unusual opportunity to come into contact with the business men of Boston and the vicinity, and receive an exceptional training in business problems and methods of the present...
Their duties will be to work with the other members in bringing the foreign students into closer contact with the majority of the class...
There is one further profit to be had from this scheme. The tutor theoretically, is the one agent in the educational outfit who can, through his personal contact encourage interest in the better sort of scholarship and eventually lessen the false emphasis on marks. At present, that power remains mere theory. In our machine, the tutor is simply an accessory; the lecture system, with frequent examinations, is the framework, to which he has to attach himself as best be may. In England, on the contrary, he is one of the drive-wheels, the only person to whom the student...
...equal importance are the personal conferences, which may be arranged merely by signing a blue-book, with some of the foremost men in the various professions. They will be informal, and designed to allow the experts to find the particular problem of each student, and advise him accordingly. Contact with these leaders, whose sole object is to guide men to the most congenial outlets for their individual talents, may well save years of undirected groping. The whole effort is being made to help men get started in work they will always enjoy to prevent the wastage and the bitterness which...