Education: Britons at Princeton

Many Britons firmly believe that 1) Americans talk like characters out of Damon Runyon and 2) that it is hazardous to walk the streets of gangster-ridden Chicago.

On a tip from a graduate whose similar haziness about life in England was cleared up by a visit to Cambridge, Princeton University had an idea. It began conducting weekend courses for groups of British and Dominion servicemen and women stationed in the U.S. Last week the 15th such group left Princeton's campus after a three-day closeup of U.S. opinion, culture, labor, politics, hospitality. The general student reaction: the U.S. is easier to understand and...

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