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so h ie^h ^^^^B u t the | | | | | | York In ter
national House, which was home to
me from Septem ber until June this
past ¿year, w hile I was a student at
C o r a m b ia ^ S ^ ^ B ^ .^
Hurid^ecis/^of foreign and American
students of m any ‘a k ^ b n ^ ro ^ o fe ^ ^ ffl1^
m ake their tem porary homes in one
of the three International Houses built
in^Njejv York, B e s f i l y and Chicago
w ith funds given by JShn
feller, Jr. Thej^unscription above the
d(fo| of our N e ^ ’York House best ex
presses 1 the I reason for the building of
tlj^ K tu '^ M B E te rs . . . “That broth -
erhood may prevail.”
support the I n t ^ ^ ^ ib f f l K I o ^ ^ ^ ^ W ^
agpjBBe thatfp B B m usB p p B a c h each
o th er w ith a true sense of fellow ship,
as hum an beings w ith fundam ental
and hopes
which are alike, if we are to attain
cooperation.
We ate together in the cafeteria,
argued politics over tea or beer and
.h a m b u rg ^ ^ W ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B ffe e y ^ ^ B i^ O n ^
day in the laundry roo'm I watched an
American, giimfe
m om M M S lp e m ysteries of running
the I autom atickc|m nes
.e x c h a i^ ^ j^ W fo rm a tio n V C ^ S ^ B t^ d iB
cussion meetings. How could we fail
to know each other as individuals?
Through these daily contacts it did
not take us long to learn that the dif-
I ferences between people are interest
ing and stim ulating . . . the sim ilari
ties are basic and binding. When we
/w a n te d a good picture taken, we didn’t
hu n t p p Hamid, the Indian. It was
H'ami’d, the
ask ed to take the picture for u s. Not
I ^b at all of
tiorispand
of our fellow h l e m |H I |B j ^ i n M
Author (extreme top) with friends at
International House.
, Since the building of the first In
ternational House in New York ^BB
years ago, 50,000 s t u d e i j t s B B i ^ g B |M |
in the activities of I one of the th r ee
Houses. Although they differ some
w hat in facilities and design, life is
much the same in each House. A.U%flB|B6
look at the activities of our New York
International House during the past
w inter and spring reveals the general
pattern.
The Living Am erica Series present
ed discussions of various aspects of
life in the U nited States by outstand
ing Americans, including the w riter
and literary critic, B ernard D e V o to ;
Dr. Reinhold N iebuhr of Union Theo-
logical Sem inary and author I of many
books and magazine articles; Iand
Jam es Carey, w ell-know n labor lead
incom patable. But B B learS e jB anjlj er. On W ednesday evenings some of
dem onstrated in endless ways that n a us used to gather in the com fortable
tionality, culture or religion are, not Home Room for discussions A W p d B
in th^hasglves.. ■-
to love and Governm ent and various program s B A
. .friendship ¿'and most of all, not to the U.N. Visiting representatives from
understanding. For m any of us our Japan, Indonesia, Italy, A frica anx|f||
experience m eant a strengthened re- other countries also presented the* po-
and cultural life and
spect for all people. To ■ some, it
brought hew 'respW rifor.others. There
their nations. O ther reg
w ere others of course, who came with ular features included “philosophy
prej u d ic ^ ^ ^ B m ana^ed to rem ain u n
I cen
changed by their, experience.
tered around the principles of m any
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