International Interchange of Students

February 1, 1919, comparatively little had been accomplished. Many students had gone from the United States to other countries, chiefly to Germany, to study in their universities, but few foreign students had come to study in our universities. The Institute was founded to develop international understanding by means of educational and cultural activities. It rapidly became a center of information and advice in its field, it published booklets on the inherent difficulties, it held conferences on long-term problems, and it directly co-operated with agencies in other countries. But the chief method for the realization of its objective was the exchange of students and teachers. The officials of the Institute were convinced that the best way of developing a knowledge of the civilization and culture of another people was by personal contact of well-chosen persons of both peoples for a sufficiently long period of time. They believed also that the end would probably best be realized were the exchanges arranged between students, young people familiar with the way of life of their own country but with sufficient flexibility of mind to appreciate the desirable characteristics of the civilization of another country. Immediately upon the establishment of the Institute, the Director visited scholars and college officials throughout our own country to acquaint them with the idea. He met with an enthusiastic response. He later visited many of the countries of Europe and Latin America and the chief countries of eastern Asia. The scholars and university administrators in those countries welcomed the plan with equal enthusiasm

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