Endowments; Student exchange programs; Foreign study; London (England); Association for the International Interchange of Students
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1901 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
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At a conference held at the Caxton hall in London recently to make better known the work of the Association for the International Interchange of Students, there were present many overseas delegates to the congress of the universities of the empire and representatives of British and American universities. Lord Strathcona was in the chair. In a speech delivered by Sir. William Anson the hope was expressed that the educational tours of the association would teach men to realize the community of interests in the acquisition of knowledge all over the world. They would realize what was the purpose of an university. They would understand that all over the world people were pursuing knowledge with an earnest desire to acquire and utilize it. They would then bring home to Great Britain what the country most needed, a sense of the value of knowledge, not merely as adding to the command of man over nature, but as adding to the dignity and interest of human life. A proposal was made at one of the sittings of the conference that the movement should be made to extend so as to include the international exchange of professors, a proposal which received the support of most of the speakers." [SOURCE: "INTERCHANGE OF STUDENTS." The Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file), Jul 19, 1912, pp. 13. ProQuest, http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/508471872?accountid=10226. Accessed 19 Sep. 2018.]