GIVE PLANS FOR STUDENT TOURS THIS SUMMER

Members of the University will be given the opportunity to participate in any one of three European tours planned for the coming summer by the Institute of International Education. The first of these is intended for Art Students; the second is a student tour to France under the auspices of the Federation de l'Alliance Francaise; and the last, a similar one embracing Italy and being sponsored by the Italy America Society.

The 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 of scholarly periodicals, and the promotion of the study of international problems.

Gives Purpose of Plan

Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, the director of the Institute in announcing the Students' Tours of the summer of 1923, stated their plans as follows: "The International Students' Tours have been organized to meet what I believe to be a double need for travel as a broadening and vitalizing element in the education of our young men and women, and the need for travel as a means of establishing a closer intellectual relationship between the youth of America and of other countries".

Tours to Start June 30

Membership in the Students' Tours is open to persons associated with institutions of higher learning in the United States, either as students or as instructors and to teachers in secondary schools. Members of the Students' Tours will sail from New York on June 30, 1923 on the S. S. Saxonia of the Cunard Line and will return on the same ship on August 24, due in New York on September 4. The Art Students' Tour offers an opportunity to visit the great galleries, churches, and palaces of Europe under the guidance of authoritative lecturers on art history and appreciation. The Students' Tour to France will have for its objective the gaining of a broad and sympathetic understanding of the history, traditions, ideals, and arts of the French language. The Students' Tour to Italy will offer an opportunity to study the monuments of Ancient Rome, the vast cultural and artistic requests of Renaissance Italy, and the social, industrial and commercial life of the Italy of today.