APPLAUSE FOR FOREIGN STUDY

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I would like to help applaud, with many encores, the Student Council proposal for foreign study during the junior year. I took my junior year abroad through the protection of the Sweet Briar Group to which the Harvard Romance Languages Department bravely entrusts its students for a year in Paris. It was, and still is, the only means for us to study abroad--a means not only limited to one department but inadequate for that department itself.

I was happy to see efforts made again in realizing a dream dear to many, the opportunity of going abroad while still an undergraduate, of experiencing a different form of education, and of enjoying this experience no matter what field a student may be in.

Any program for study abroad is a big order for both administration and student. The Council has covered many of the practical obstacles in its proposals, but I'm afraid it will find many more to overcome. Information is lacking which would give everyone a more realistic picture of foreign universities. But to a student well prepared, examined by a well informed bureau, forewarned and willing, the opportunity should be open to venture independently into a foreign country where he will profit doubly himself, and more so on his return. Mary Frances Raphael '54