Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1914 — BOOST U.S. SCHOOLS [ARTICLE]

BOOST U.S. SCHOOLS

To Tell Foreign Student of Educational Advantages Here. Dr. P. P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education, Authorizes Preparation and Publication of Bulletins \ Giving Detail*. Washington.—Convinced that one of the results of the present European war will be to interest foreign students fn opportunities for education in the United States, Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, has authorized the immediate preparation and publication of a special bulletin describing, for the use offoreign students, the facilities for professional and collegiate study In higher institutions of learning in this country. The bulletin will be printed in several languages. • “This is America's opportunity, declares Commissioner Claxton. “Thousands of students who have been attending universities in Europe will be obliged to look elsewhere for higher education, not only this year, but perhaps for years to come. Many foreign students are already coming to us, many more will come as the result, direct and indirect, of present events. “We have now a supreme opportunity to demonstrate our capacity for intellectual leadership. Whether the war continues three months or three years, our opportunities and obligations to take the lead in education and civilization will be the same, and America should respond by offering the best opportunity in the world for her own students and for those who may come from other countries. “In the case of South America this student migration will be facilitated by the opportune opening of the Panama canal. Students from the western coast of South America will find it alluringly convenient to go via the canal to educational in the United States. *

“Within the last two decades the increase in opportunity for graduate study and research, and for professional and technical education has been very remarkable, mpch greater than most people even in America realize. The recent raising of standards and the better equipment of medical schools, the large endowments and appropriations for all forms of engineering, the marvelous growth of our colleges of agriculture, the development of colleges and schools of education, and the rapid increase in income of all the better colleges make it possible for this country to take the lead in education in a way that would have been impossible even at the beginning of the century.”