Schemes For Cheap Travel Abound As Foreign Nations Lure Students

Want to spend the summer in Europe--free? You can pick peas in England and get your weekends off. Or you can dig swimming pools in Yugoslavia and perhaps get a medal from Marshal Tito.

"Work-your-way" tours like these are sponsored by the National Students Association, which also sponsors a variety of "pay-out-of-your-own-pocket" travel plan.

You can take a plain sight-seeing tour. You can try one with a music slant and go to music festivals. Or you can take a tour with an architecture slant and concentrate on looking at buildings and monuments.

Temporarily Stranded

Last summer, however, at least two NSA tours suffered transportation difficulties. One group of 500 NSA tourists was temporarily stranded in New York when their boat was condemned. Another group was marooned for a while in Luxembourg.

Heading the list of educational opportunities are a number of jobs for students teaching conversational English to Frenchmen in France. A conversational knowledge of French is required.

The Universities of London, Edinburgh, and Birmingham will offer summer courses in history, literature, philosophy, and music especially designed for juniors and seniors. Many fellowships are available for both undergraduates and graduates in Europe and Latin America.

For Further Information . . .

Here are some places to get further information about summer opportunities in foreign lands.

National Students Association, Suite 424, 127 West 43rd Street, New York or Student Council Office in Phillips Brooks House.

Student Travel Club, 1841 Broadway, New York or contact Donald G. Vincent '51, 850 Massachusetts Avenue.

Institute of International Education, 2 West 45th Street, New York.

Experiment in International Living, contact Roger Hahn '53, Leverett K-12.

Council on Student Travel, 53 Broadway, New York.

Commission on Youth Service Projects, 203 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago.

If you want to live for a while with a European or Latin American family, you can contact the Experiment in International Living. According to this organization's plan students live and work with a foreign family for a month and then hike or bicycle around the country for an additional month.

Focal points for travel this summer will be the national festival in Britain and Paris's celebration of her 2,000th birthday.

In spite of the Korean War and the draft, the number of students going to Europe this summer is still impressively large.