A FLOATING COLLEGE

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12252, 25 September 1925, Page 12

A FLOATING COLLEGE

TO SEE THE WORLD An 18,000-ton steamship, the “University,” will leave New York on Septem ber 2oth, ©quipped to £ive 450 lucky students —all men—an eight-months’ tour ot* the world and a year of their college course at the same time—all for 2200 dollars. New York University will sponsor the trip Ex-president Charles F. Thwing, of Western Reserve University, will sail as president of the faculty. A. J. McIntosh, head of the University Travel Association at 11, Broadway, N.Y.,-is iu active charge of arrangements. The ship will be a floating college, equipped with rooms, study balls, laboratories, a library, and a gymnasium. Courses of all years of college grade will be offered, and full creditgiven under the usual conditions of ciedit and transfer. Languages, geography, history, astronomy, art, music, comparative governments, and international relations will he taught under exceptionally favourable conditions/ Seventy automobiles will .be taken for inland excursions.

The itinerary includes Cuba, Panama, Hawaii, Japan and Korea; China, the Philippines, Borneo, Java, and Sumatra ; Burma, India, and Ceylon; Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, Italy, and North Africa ♦ Spain and Portugal;, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany • Denmark, Sweden and Norway; Scotland and England.