On February 27, 1933, University of Delaware president and foreign study supporter Walter S. Hullihen addressed the nation over the airwaves. His speech, carried by WCBS, outlined the merits of studying abroad - something that was still in question after WWI and during the Depression. After a brief summary of foreign study's origin at the University of Delaware, Hullihen outlined the goals of study abroad, including mastery of a foreign language, preparation for teaching, and the broadening of students' minds. Said Hullihen:
Life in another country tends to broaden and liberalize [a student's] outlook, through contact with a civilization other than his own, with its literature and art, with its modes of thought, with its attitudes toward life and living.
It makes him realize how much of goodness and kindness and culture there is beyond the borders of our favored land.
It brings him into touch with the long history of the peoples of Europe from whom our nation sprang, and gives him a new conception, a new realization, of our kinship with them and of the solidarity of human interests throughout the world.
If undergraduate study abroad could be made a success, it might well prove to be a real contribution by American colleges to promotion of an understanding of other peoples which is the necessary condition of international good will about which we talk so much and do so little.
