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IN the United States, the Government takes no part in the promotion of international interchanges of students and teachers, except in a negative sense-o through the application of the laws restricting the immigration of aliens; but several powerful corporations do very energetically encourage such interchanges. The activities of the American University Union in Europe (London and Paris) and the American Council on Education, in which the Union is now merged, are well known. The Council's Educational Record of April gives particulars of 76 American organisations in the field of international educational relations. One of these, the Institute of International Education, founded in 1919, administers a large number of scholarships for students of various nationalities, makes grants for expenses of foreign travel to American professors on leave of absence, publishes guide-books for foreign students in the United States and for American students in foreign countries, holds educational conferences, and serves as a clearing-house for information relating to| international education. It has, moreover, fostered the formation of clubs for the discussion of international relations in American universities.
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The Universities and International Relations1. Nature 115, 557–559 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115557a0
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