COLLEGE CREDIT TO BE GIVEN FOR EUROPEAN STUDY TOUR
An European travel and study tour for which college credit will be given at Dartmouth has been arranged for the coming summer by the Intercollegiate Tours Management of Boston, Mass., and will be under the personal direction of Professor E. R. Greene of the Department of Romance Languages. The price of the tour, including ocean accommodations will be $1000.
According to plans recently announced, the party will sail from Montreal June 21, landing in France July 1. The month of July will be spent in study at the College of the Seine, a vacation school in cooperation with the Alliance Francais, and credit toward a Dartmouth degree will be awarded for the successful completion of this course. The month of August will be devoted to travel, the itinerary including the Chateau country of southwestern France, the Pyrennes, the Rhone Valley, the French Alps, Switzerland, and the Passion Play at Oberammergau. For those who wish it an alternative trip for the latter part of August will be arranged, including the principal cities of central Spain as far south as Granada and Seville.
The Alliance Francais, whose courses students taking this trip will have an opportunity to attend, is a celebrated summer school maintained by the Department of Instruction and taught by leading professors of the Sorborne and the Lycees. Courses will include: French institutions, French art, history of France, history of literature, the classic age of literature, nineteenth century literature, French grammar and phonetics, with special attention to defects in foreign pronunciation. Successful completion of these courses entitles one to a certificate or diploma, the possession of which is of considerable professional advantage.
In addition there will be conversation classes and close contact with French-speaking people in the living quarters and dining halls. Vacant intervals will be filled with excursions about Paris and with week-end trips to points of supreme interest, the American and French battlefronts, Versailles, St. Cloud, Sevres, Fontainebleau and Amiens. There will be opportunity while in Paris to attend both the theatre and the opera. Residence will be in student lodging in the Latin quarter if suitable accommodations can be found.
At the close of the residence session the school will travel in groups of not more than 25 in charge of specially qualified leaders. This travel will give opportunities for sight-seeing in the most renowned and beautiful portions of France, and will enable the leaders to give additional lectures on the history, literature and art of the French people. The itinerary includes automobile trips in the little known and wonderfully impressive Pyrennes and in high Savoie.
