Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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European Study Tour . . . three months of adventure Twenty members of the Olivet European tour group sailed from New York on June 3 on the Dutch student ship, S.S. Groote Beer, along with about seven hundred other American college students and teachers. One night was spent at a manor house near Stratford-on-Avon. Students are boarding chartered coach to go to see Shake- speare ' s Twelfth Night. England Of striking interest to the newly-arrived Olivet students was the imposing west front of Wells Cathedral, built in the thirteenth century. The students reported that the course in Fine Arts was particularly helpful in preparing them for the trip. 22 Under the direction of Dr. Carl Bangs, Olivet launched its first European Study Tour in the summer of 1958. Twenty-one students, professors, alumni, and friends spent sixty- seven days in England, Scotland, The Nether- lands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Germany. They travelled an esti- mated forty-five hundred miles within Europe itself on six busses, ten ships and boats, and five trains and aerial tramways. The tour in- cluded places of historical and architectural interest (fifty-five cathedrals and churches, according to the weary travelers), museums, major cities, schools and universities, and places of scenic beauty. The group visited Nazarene ministers and laymen in Bristol, Bolton, and London, England, in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, in Frankfort, Ger- many, and in Florence, Italy. In Bolton and Glasgow they were entertained in the homes of church members. At points of major interest, local guides, mostly graduate students or professors in European universities, lectured on items of local importance. Experts in history, art, poli- tics, literature, and music made their services available to the students. Dr. Bangs provided general lectures and guidance.

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A class studying soils, under the direction of John Paschke, soil scientist from the U. S. Department of Soil Conservation, observe their subject as they absorb the lectures. -; ' JtPl : l S ;- ' tMi •:. .. ;-mi A class studying contour farming is able to observe good practices. Field Biology comes to life when the class studies real specimens in natural habitat. 21

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It was exhilarating to enjoy the freshness of a cool, sunnij day in the Highlands. Here, in the Lady of the Lake country, Olivet students stand on a knoll amid bluebells and heather. By high road and low road the group reached Loch Lomond, where they enjoy the view of Ben Lomond on the right and the Highlands in the distance. Scotland Visits to the birthplace of David Livingstone at Blan- tyre, to Edinburgh ' s Castle and Royal Mile, to the High- land lakes made famous by Sir Walter Scott, and to Stir- ling Castle made the days in Scotland a high point of the tour. Perhaps the finest thing, however, was the oppor- tunity to become acquainted with the people of Scotland. At the Parkhead Church of the Nazarene in Glasgow, the Rev. Sydney Martin and the N.Y.P.S. provided excel- lent entertainment. After a sumptuous tea, there were tram rides through town and then late suppers in the various homes. An unscheduled activity for some of the group was a train ride back to Glasgow from Edinburgh for another youth meeting in the church. It would have been easy to linger, but rigid schedules had to be kept. 23