Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1910 — CHILDREN CAN VISIT EUROPE [ARTICLE]

CHILDREN CAN VISIT EUROPE

Columbia Professor Would Use Same B«heme As Colleges Now Do With Their Students. Boston.—" The present practise of sending exchange students to the European centers ought to be extended to children and young people of both sexes in all walks of life,” declared Dr. Ernest Richard, professor at Columbia university, at a meeting of the Twentieth Century elub the other day. Professor Richard’s plan would enable families with small means to place their children with families In other countries, thus enabling them to study the language of the country and become acquainted with its business, social and educational enterprises. “The distinguishing feature of children’s exchange,” he declared, "Is the reception freq of expense of foreigners in the home life of the family. There are, of course, many famlHey

that would like to see their son or daiighter enjoy the advantages of a prolonged stay abroad, but do not have the means to pay for it In receiving the guest member of the family in exchange, the expenses for maintenance remain the same; only the transportation has to be provided. "There is no reason why, after conquering the first difficulties, the enterprise proposed should not develop most useful activities.”