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Show Exchange Students Waste Time, Money from other countries than ours and, often, have been enrolled in our colleges and universities." THERE ARE many reasons for this "sad situation," Wilder said, including "lack of course background, back-ground, lack of language proficiency, pro-ficiency, lack of funds, lack of motivation, failure to adapt to new environment, and sheer intent in-tent to 'have a good time' for a year or more. The problem is an old one and cannot be readily overcome," he said, "but it results in enormous BRUNSWICK, Me. (I.P.) "Too many" foreign exchange students are wasting time and money frittering away their opportunities op-portunities here and in other countries, declares Philip S. Wilder, Assistant to the President Presi-dent and Foreign Student Adviser Ad-viser at Bowdoin College. IN A RECENT address here, Wilder said study abroad is a good thing but there are some young men and women who "have spent a year or more in a foreign situation, ostensibly as students, who have not been well qualified for this and have not received appreciable benefit from it. "This has perhaps been true more often of Americans in Paris than anywhere else," he asserted, "but there have been thousands of examples of this where the students have been waste of time and money by students, stu-dents, families, institutions and governments." WILDER said there is a second sec-ond current problem in international interna-tional education "that of students, stu-dents, especially those from the developing countries, who go, or are . sent abroad to study, and who do not then go home." One example, he observed, is Korea, which has sent almost 8,-000 8,-000 students to the United States since 1946. Only about 800, or 10 per cent have returned. THERE ARE more American trained Iranian doctors in New York than in all of Iran," he said, and more than a dozen American hospitals have 50 or more foreign physicians on their staffs. In sending students overseas, Wilder declared, there is need for restraint and caution. |