When the University of Delaware began its Foreign Study Plan in 1923, hometown newspapers followed the participants' progress with pride.
The University of Delaware's newspaper, the Review, also kept Delawareans informed about the adventures of its students abroad. In December of 1929, a letter from W. Emerson Wilson, a UD junior studying in Paris, was published in the Review. Here Wilson talks about attending convocation at the Sorbonne:
The Professors of the University in their brilliant-hued robes, many wearing crosses of the Legion of Honor and other decorations, file slowly into the immense auditorium, while a military band plays the Marseillaise. Honorary degrees were given to the President of Poland and to Einstein, the famous scientist. Einstein, a member of the faculty of the University of Berlin, received a great ovation from the audience. The whole ceremony was photographed for the newsreels....
